If you were wandering about financing your year in Israel, there are many solutions for any situation. Various sholarship options are availble for students interested in studying in year-long programmes in Israel. Students may apply for as many as they so wish.

Please read about these options and chose which ones suit you most. It is recommended that you apply as soon as possible as it might take from a few days to weeks to process. The amount of the tuition scholarship depends on the need of each student.

We also request that if you find any other good financial aid options that you inform us so we can publicise them to help other students.

Here are a few of the most popular options:

MASA:

Offers: varying amounts to suit the need – airfare and tuition scholarships.

"Rabbi Benzion Klatzko, National Director of College Outreach, offers airfare and tuition scholarships for students to go to Israel on various Jewish experience trips. He offers scholarships to those students that have already been on a Jewish experience trip and now want to return and study in select Yeshivot or Seminaries in or around Jerusalem. The amount of the tuition scholarship depends on the need."

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The Alisa Flatow Memorial Fund:

Offers: tuition scholarship.

To qualify, you need to:

1. be a high school graduate,
2. not currently be in Israel,
3. intend to study Torah at a Yeshiva or Seminary in Israel, and
4. show "academic promise in religious studies." – From their Web site

Click here for: Application Forms

Your Local Rabbi, Synagogue:

Offers: ranging from $150 – $500 tuition and airfare scholarship

Most Rabbis, synagogues, or kollels have money set aside from the community help students get to Israel. You won‘t usually find this scholarship listed on their Web site or in their brochures. However, check with your Rabbi if he, or someone he knows can help you pay for your trip and (part of) your experience to and in Israel. Usually they have a fund, or know someone who can help you pay for part of your studies in Israel.

Bureau of Jewish Education:

Offers: varying amounts – airfare & tuition scholarships

In the United States, many cities have a Bureau of Jewish Education that gives out scholarships. Each of the Bureau's below offer scholarships to study at a Seminary or Yeshiva in Israel. Please contact them directly for information.

PLEASE NOTE: The Bureau's of Jewish Education listed below only give scholarships to people who are located in and or around their city. Please do not contact them if you’re from a different area.

The S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program (YU):

Students who participate in the S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program may receive federal and state aid if they are eligible.
Please visit the S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program page in the YU website

Midreshet Yeud Scholership fund:

Once you have read through and tried out the options that apply to you, please let us know if there is anything else we can help you with, going forward.

More information about scholerships can be found on the following websites:

The MASA website

Study in Isreal website