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38 Detroit Jewish News
Israeli Teen-Agers Come To America
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specially trained group of
Israeli teens is stepping off
of planes around the world
as youth ambassadors of the
Jewish state. Last week's stop was in
Detroit.
As part of
a worldwide
program
sponsored by
the Israeli
Foreign
Ministry in
cooperation
with the
Education
Ministry, 74
teens will
travel to 40
countries
throughout
the world as
representa-
tives of the 30-year-old
Israeli Youth Ambassadors
program.
"The aim of this pro-.
gram is for the young
ambassadors to speak to
other teens about Israel,"
said Tzipora Rimon,
Midwest consul general of
Israel, during a visit to
Detroit that coincided
with the ambassadors' visit.
Out of the 26 youths traveling
together to the United States from
Israel last week, two were chosen to
represent their country in the Detroit,
Minneapolis and Chicago areas.
During their four-day visit to
Michigan, Ron Yaacov and Shira
Shacham, both 16, offered high school
students a glimpse into their lives.
Ron and Shira spoke with public
school social studies classes and stu-
dent delegations from West
Bloomfield, Rochester and Walled
Lake Central high schools. They also
addressed teens at the New Hope
Missionary Baptist church in Wayne.
Allan Gale, Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan Detroit assis-
tant director, said he found it impor-
tant "to bring the Jewish community
into non-Jewish settings."
The teen ambassadors were chosen
on the basis of testing and personal
interviews. Each prospective represen-
tative was tested on general knowl-
edge, English composition, the ability
to respond to questions in diplomatic
ways, and the results of a training
course on history, Zionism, public
speaking and current events.
Besides being interviewed in
English, Ron was considered as a rep-
resentative to Romania, where he lived
Israeli Youth
Ambassadors Shira
Shacham and Ron
Yaacov, in the hallway
of the Max M Fisher
Federation Building in
Bloomfield Township.
Israel Midwest Consul
General Tzipora Rimon
before moving to Israel at age 2.
When no delegation was sent there, he
was placed with the American-bound
group.
Mostly everyone in Israel knows
English. But Ron admitted that as he
speaks, his mind is "translating word
for word, from Hebrew to English."
The two high school students, who
had not met before joining the ambas-
sadors program, were hosted by the
West Bloomfield families of Dorothy
and Eddy Barak and Sharon and
Martin Gene.
Laya Barak, 16, found she and her
new Israeli friends had many of the
same interests, but different lifestyles.
Ron described West Bloomfield High
as so large, it "looks like an airport."
Laya found it somewhat strange that
in his school, "the kids call their teach-
ers by their first names." Benji Gene,
16, felt it takes a special type of "out-
going, very knowledgeable" teen, like
Ron, to travel and not be "afraid to
come here."