See Israel through your own eyes

Plenty of experiences and opportunities to travel and live in Israel exist, but only Otzma lets you explore the country and meet the people on your own terms. Aside from some supervision early on and facilitation of volunteer/housing arrangements throughout, Otzma allows you to live without feeling overshadowed by a "Program" and free to connect with people and places as an individual.

Otzma also is structured to give you the opportunity to be exposed to many different corners of the country, both geographically and socially. Most people never visit the places you can see during this program, let alone live there for weeks or months-- this helps to provide a more natural and intense experience, formative for a deeper relationship with Israel and her people.

The time I spent on the program gave me fluency with the language, bus system and culture that I doubt you'd be able to otherwise find. Far beyond the semester abroad experience, Otzma is the way to really go native.