{"id":17036,"date":"2022-05-01T12:50:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T09:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajeec-nisped.org.il\/?page_id=17036"},"modified":"2025-11-11T11:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:58:06","slug":"gap-years","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ajeec-nisped.org.il\/?page_id=17036&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Gap year"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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A bridge for Arab young women and men between high school graduation and integration into adulthood.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Over 85% of AJEEC gap year alumni have integrated into the labor market, and over 75% have integrated into higher education!<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Arab society in Israel is undergoing far-reaching changes, including an increase in the percentage of students in academia, an increase in the age of marriage, and more. However, the percentage of young women and men from Arab society in higher education and employment is still lower than the national average.<\/span><\/p>

AJEEC's gap year programs address the various barriers faced by Arab young men and women and serve as a bridge between high school graduation and integration into adulthood, education, and employment. The gap years prepare their participants for integration into society, assist in the forming of personal identity, and help develop a sense of belonging to the community. This is supplemented with acquiring tools for learning and working alongside academic and vocational guidance.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Throughout the year, participants volunteer in their communities, study Hebrew and English, improve their high school matriculation scores, receive vocational guidance, study for the university entrance exam, and develop learning and personal skills. This opens new employment horizons for participants, and they approach academic studies and the labor market with increased maturity and readiness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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AJEEC\u2019s gap year programs have different tracks, each with a different emphasis: \u201cTaliya\u201d (\u201cPioneering\u201d)\u2014focused on volunteering in the community with a gender lens; \u201cSabil Leadership Institute\u201d\u2014focused on developing youth leadership; \u201cArab-Jewish Gap Year\u201d\u2014a joint program for Arab and Jewish youth, the latter made up of Scouts national service participants; \u201cBridgeTech\u201d\u2014focusing on preparation for studies and employment in STEM fields; \u201cKimam\u201d\u2014a pre-academic gap year run in partnership with Tel Aviv University; \u201cAl-Razi\u201d, which focuses on training for the study of health professions; and \u201cAthar,\u201d with a focus on informal education.<\/p>

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Gap year A bridge for Arab young women and men between high school graduation and integration into adulthood. Over 85% of AJEEC gap year alumni have integrated into the labor market, and over 75% have integrated into higher education! Arab society in Israel is undergoing far-reaching changes, including an increase in the percentage of students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23729,"parent":17026,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17036","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajeec-nisped.org.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajeec-nisped.org.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajeec-nisped.org.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajeec-nisped.org.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajeec-nisped.org.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17036"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/ajeec-nisped.org.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25778,"href":"https:\/\/ajeec-nisped.org.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17036\/revisions\/25778"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajeec-nisped.org.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajeec-nisped.org.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajeec-nisped.org.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}