After seventeen years of activity, Mechinat Hanegev has founded an alumni organization with the goal of helping graduates bring their social initiatives to fruition

To mark Tu BiShvat, we sought out the mechina graduates who decided to leave the rat race and devote all their energies to cultivating the earth. From the Golan Heights to the Arava, these are the people who get up before first light so there will be blue-and-white produce for us all. A festive project

Omer Lapid is a Shibolim graduate who attended the Mechina of the Upper Galilee. Now an activist who works to change attitudes toward individuals with disabilities, he came back to share his experiences and insights with mechina staff.

At this year’s first meeting of Shibolink—the leadership group of Shibolim, the program for the mainstreaming of young people with disabilities at the mechinot, and Link 20, a Ruderman Family Foundation initiative—participants brought up the need for accessibility modification of hiking trails in Israel and started thinking of ways to achieve that goal

As part of efforts to recruit Jewish teens from North America to attend mechina, a special conference was held between the Joint Council of Mechinot and leaders of American Jewish communities. Joint Council CEO Dani Zamir: “I came out of the evening optimistic”

Education as prelude to action: The reader that will harness future mechina graduates to the mission of settling Israel’s periphery.

This Yom Kippur was marked differently by every mechina, each one in its own unique way.

Five teachers talk about daily work in education, teaching, ethics, and shaping the next generation

Pluralistic Judaism and Jewish Peoplehood projects close out a third year of intercultural encounters.

The amendment promises equitable budgeting for mechina students with disabilities as of this coming year.