Ilan Bloch, Director
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Ilan Bloch, 47, works as a tour guide, teacher and session facilitator for individual tourists, and adult, family and student/young adult groups from overseas. Before making Aliyah almost twenty years ago, he worked as a Jewish Studies, Hebrew and Israel Studies teacher, and served as the Head of Informal Jewish Education, at The King David School in Melbourne, Australia. He is married with twins and lives in Jerusalem.
Ilan holds a Ministry of Tourism Tour Guide License and a Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) Ministry of Education-authorized Tour Guiding Certificate. He also holds a Master of Arts degree in Jewish Education, and a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Graduate Diploma of Education (Teaching Diploma) in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Literature. During COVID, he spent 18 months learning at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. Ilan has previously worked with Hebrew University of Jerusalem Rothberg International School, Nes Ammim, Ir Amim, MEJDI, National Geographic, Ramah Programs in Israel, USY, URJ Heller High, the Jewish Agency for Israel, Israel Experience Ltd, the Jerusalem Center for Jewish-Christian Relations, Diller Teen Fellows, Israel Experts, Masa Yehudi, Aardvark Israel, the World Zionist Organization Hagshama Department, Yeladim-Netivot, NOAM, B'nei Akiva Olami, Yavneh Olami, Melitz, Otzma, CIDI, CiJO, Kibbutz Be'erot Yitzchak Ulpan, Israel-Australia Chamber of Commerce, Herzl Museum, Hadassah WUJS, the Zionist Federation of Australia, Young Judaea, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, Israel Government Fellows, the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, J Street U, Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, Masorti Olami, Lavi, the Australian Zionist Youth Council and Mount Scopus Memorial College. |
Yael Brygel, Media and Communications Division Coordinator
Yael Brygel, our Media and Communications Division Coordinator, is a published journalist, whose articles have appeared in The Jerusalem Post and The Australian Jewish News. She is an expert in covering Israeli society, culture and religion, as well as human interest stories.
Yael holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media and Communications, and History, and a Masters of Arts degree in Public Policy and Management.
Yael holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media and Communications, and History, and a Masters of Arts degree in Public Policy and Management.
