Birthright Israel celebrated the Annual Mega Event held on June 13th at the Latrun Memorial for the Armed Corps. In addition to the event, this also marked the one hundred thousandth student participating on birthright since the programs conception. Chabad recognizing the amazing potential to reach out to the many students, had volunteers working on location publicizing its many programs, and on the forefront JNET, the chavrusa by phone network. At the event alone well over one thousand brochures were distributed and over two hundred and fifty students signed up to join on the spot!
“Students coming from the Mayanot Birthright Israel this past winter expressed a high interest in joining JNET, and therefore we decided to step it up a notch and present it to the entire spectrum of students participating, thus enabling us to reach out to ten times amount of students, totaling about seven thousand Jewish students,’ said Mendy Rivkin, of the JNET campus division.