Director's Message

Dear parents and youngsters (age 13-16), grandparents and friends,

Are you looking for a new challenge by finish high-school in Israel? If yes – you are kindly invited to think about our suggestion: NAALE – Elite-Academy program.

Let's recognize one of those who made it. My family and myself invited one of them to spend Shabbbat with us. It was at 1992 and he was 15 years old, a new NAALE student. He and his mother became and remain part of our family. Telman finished high-school successfully; he served in the army, and started Tel-Aviv University in science. His dream was to be an opera singer and he fulfilled his dream. For more information: http://www.telmanguzhevsky.com/

The epic tale of NAALE embraces tens of thousands of people; from currently enrolled students to alumni to parents, from host families to educators and through this site we hope to reach out to many others in Israel and abroad. And it is that tale that we wish to share through this site. From general information about NAALE – "Let My People Know" – to specific practical information directed at those candidates who have chosen to join this special program – "Let My People Go".

The NAALE program, was established in 1992 as a joint initiative of The Prime Minister’s Office – through Nativ – and The Ministry of Education. Its mission is to invite Jewish high school students worldwide to study and to finish high-school in Israel. The program is fully subsidized by the Israeli Ministry of Education.

The Jewish Agency for Israel is responsible for worldwide NAALE activities till Ben-Gurion airport. At that point the Ministry of Education and NAALE administration together with our schools are responsible 7/24.

More than 13,000 high school age students have come to Israel since the inception of the NAALE program. We carry out the program in tens of schools across all of Israel. And we have successfully placed students in all streams of high school programs recognized and approved by The Ministry of Education.

Though the name of the program resembles the word Aliya, students enrolled in the NAALE program maintain the visa status with which they entered the country until the end of their high school studies. No commitment for Aliya, not of the student or her/his parents, is required or even requested. Elite-Academy is the American name for Naale, as well as Zohar in Latin-America.

"! אין מפעל יותר נעלה מנעל"ה" were the words the late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin used to describe the NAALE enterprise. Those empowering words continue to energize the NAALE program in Israel and all over the Jewish world.

We welcome you to our site and we will be glad to respond to any inquiry.

Yeshayahu Yechieli
Director of NAALE