Participants perform community service and join activities that focus on team-building, leadership development, and regional issues. As the program progresses, the young adults take responsibility for a social project of their own design.
Choosing Tomorrow strengthens Israel’s periphery by promoting social awareness, encouraging civic responsibility, and equipping promising young adults with practical tools for active citizenship during and after their studies. The program offers four tracks:
Choosing Tomorrow―La’ad addresses the critical need of Israel’s Holocaust survivors for companionship and assistance while building a strong intergenerational sense of community around memory, belonging, and social justice. Students develop solutions to address Holocaust survivor welfare through initiatives and community outreach, easing survivors’ feelings of solitude and helping them gain a sense of belonging in their community. Additionally, students are paired with Holocaust survivors with whom they meet each week, alleviating loneliness by conversing with survivors in their own homes, going on outings with them to coffee shops and parks, and becoming their advocates.
Choosing Tomorrow―Medical Students addresses the shortage of qualified medical personnel in the Galilee and the Negev by encouraging young medical students to begin their careers at local medical centers, while designing and implementing groundbreaking social initiatives that improve the lives of Galilee and Negev residents. Choosing Tomorrow for Medical Students is part of a multi-year national plan led by the Ministry for the Development of the Negev and Galilee that targets various populations, including students, residents, and interns. Our medical students’ social change initiatives promote community health and wellness while strengthening the students’ own commitment to social responsibility and sense of belonging to the Negev and Galilee.
Choosing Tomorrow―Social Engineers engages engineering students in social action platforms that combine their professional interests and personal commitments to change. Students are encouraged to use their technical skills to develop ideas and programs that enable communal growth, address local challenges, and inspire transformation within the community. This track is implemented with students at the Sami Shamoon College of Engineering in Be’er Sheva.
Choosing Tomorrow―Locals strengthens young people’s senses of belonging and social responsibility where they live and harnesses them for social, economic and cultural change in the periphery. The students work together to create social initiatives for and within the community, and receive weekly training to develop social awareness, personal and social identity, gaining tools for effective social engagement and entrepreneurship.
