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Israel's Partnership 2000 volunteer
committee. "We wanted this year's
Mission participants to make real
connections with Israelis so that they,
and the members of our communi-
ties, would see how much we really
have in common."
In every corner of the huge grass
field built by American residents of
Ein Dor for baseball, Mission partici-
pants made connections with "real"
Israelis.
Jan Landsberg of Temple Shir
Shalom spent the afternoon chatting
with the Dasse family, recent immi-
grants from Ethiopia who now live in
Nazareth Illk.
Fifteen-year-old Zeva Dasse was
excited by the afternoon's discussions.
"Before today, I knew almost nothing
about American Jews," Zeva said in
her heavily accented Hebrew. "In
Ethiopia, and now in Israel, we are
very sheltered from other Jewish com-
munities. I can't wait to do this again."
"From a people-to-people stand-
point, which is a very important
aspect of Partnership 2000, the cele-
bration was a huge success," said
Hammer.
Partnership 2000, launched five
years ago by the Jewish Agency for
Israel's Department of Rural and Urban
Development, links communities in
the Diaspora with sister communities
in Israel. New York is paired with
Jerusalem, Los Angeles with Tel Aviv,
and Detroit with the Central Galilee,
which includes the fast-growing com-
munities of Nazareth, Nazareth Illit,
Migdal HaEmek and the agricultural
communities of the Jezreel Valley.
It differs from previous programs
by emphasizing reciprocity. In the
past, U.S. Jews played the role of rich
uncle while Israelis played the role of
poor, needy child. In the first years
—`even the first 30 years — of Israel's
shaky existence, this was a seemingly
effective system. Israel's infrastructure
desperately needed a financial boost,
while American Jews were for the
most part happy to feel attached to
the Jewish state by an umbilical cord
of dollars.
"Partnership 2000 redefines the
relationship between American Jews
and Israel to be one of mutual self-
interest," explains Robert Aronson,
executive vice-president of the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
"Where money used to be the prima-
ry goal, it is now the least important
aspect of our connection with Israel."
The first step in creating a program
of mutual self-interest has been get-
ting to know one another. For this
reason, every Central Galilee project
sponsored by P-2000 must have both
an Israel and a Detroit component to
it. Before last year's Teen Mission
spent the summer touring Israel with
threedozen Israeli teens, the Israelis
themselves were brought to Detroit
and hosted by the same families they
would see later in the summer.
For the last two summers,
University of Michigan students have
come — via private funding — to the
archeological park of Zippori to dig
and sift through the ruins of the
ancient city.
"This program," says Aronson, "is
a perfect example of win, win, win.
Before today, I
knew almost
nothing about
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American Jews,
Zeva Dasse
Zippori receives immeasurable help
on an excavation that would otherwise
lie untouched. U-M students receive
six college credits and an experience of
a lifetime; U-M Hillel starts the new
year with strong base of excited, active
and knowledgeable students.
Other P-2000 programs include
U-M MBA students working to build
business plans for start-up immigrant
companies, teacher exchanges, Jewish
study groups, professional seminars
and Internet chat groups.
Although these programs have
been largely successful, not all
Partnership 2000 projects work out so
nicely. Some fail as a result of region-
al politicking in Israel. Some don't
get off the ground because of a lack of
funds or poor leadership.
While P-2000 programs have had
some success, they are not dominant
in the lives of American Jews or
Israelis. In fact, expanding Partnership
2000 projects is one of the biggest
challenges facing P-2000 leaders in
both countries. "Perhaps 5 percent of
the region knows what Partnership
2000 is about," laments Hammer.
"My goal," says Aronson, "and I
think it is a reasonable one, is to be
able to stop people at any Jewish func-
tion, ask them about Partnership
2000, and find out that they or people
they know are already involved."