Mission

Birthright Israel Foundation supports the education of members of the Jewish community outside of Israel about Judaism; strengthens the understanding of their heritage; and fosters stronger bonds between the Jews of the Diaspora and the state of Israel. The Foundation makes distributions to Taglit-Birthright Israel, which in turn provides the gift of first time, peer group, educational trips to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26. Taglit-Birthright Israel's founders created this program to send thousands of young Jewish adults from all over the world to Israel as a gift in order to diminish the growing division between Israel and Jewish communities around the world; to strengthen the sense of solidarity among world Jewry; and to strengthen participants' personal Jewish identity and connection to the Jewish people.