Where does Israel
fit in your future?
The Future is Calling is a series of programs from the Tzemach David Educational Foundation built around that one question. Through personalized guidance, exclusive partnerships with Israel's leading universities, and support at every stage of a student's education, we help Jewish students and their families turn it into a clear, confident path toward academic excellence and a meaningful future in Israel.
Students in Israel
Tamar Krieger, Executive Director
From the Executive Director
Everyone has a different pathway for what it looks like to be here. We try to meet people where they are, and give them the resources and the support they need.
Tamar Krieger
Executive Director, The Future is Calling
The Foundation
many programs, one mission.
The Tzemach David Educational Foundation
The Future Is Calling is built around an integrated approach to Israel education and higher education that begins well before a student is applying to college. Our work with students begins as early as 10th grade through our Nelech program, which integrates North American students into Israeli high schools. This gives us several years of experience understanding the challenges and opportunities students encounter as they begin engaging with Israel educationally and socially long before the college decision-making process begins. By the time students are considering Israeli universities, we have a much deeper understanding of what they and their families actually need in order to make the experience successful.
Tzemach David works with many seminaries and yeshivot, sponsoring Ulpan programs to lessen the language barrier for those students who wish to better integrate into Israeli society. Our work with army and sherut leumi representatives including organizations that guide lone soldiers and bnot sherut, helps us accompany students through all stages of their journey.
That same integrated approach extends to our university partnerships. In addition to bringing American guidance counselors to Israel through the Tzemach David program, which we have been doing for the past three years, we work directly with Israeli colleges and universities and provide grants to help them develop and expand programs specifically designed to support North American students, including hybrid programs and other initiatives that make it easier for American students to study successfully in Israel.
The Future is Calling
Your Future in Israel Starts Here.
University
Belonging
Degrees, national service, community, and support once a student arrives.
Prepare
11th grade
One-on-one guidance for the whole family. Understand the system, weigh the options, build a plan.
Gap Year
gap year
Advisors inside the gap year programs, while a student is already living in Israel.
Apply
11th-12th grade
Israeli admissions work differently. We navigate the applications end to end.
Explore
9th, 10th grade
An immersive year in Israel for 10th graders. Students connect with the land, deepen their sense of belonging and responsibility to the Jewish people, and bring their study of Jewish history and Torah to life through travel, experiential learning, and real relationships.
our holistic mo
We guide at every stage.
Not one program at one moment. Five stages that run from ninth grade through university, and a family can enter at any of them. Most arrive somewhere in the middle.
Explore
9th, 10th grade
An immersive year in Israel for 10th graders. Students connect with the land, deepen their sense of belonging and responsibility to the Jewish people, and bring their study of Jewish history and Torah to life through travel, experiential learning, and real relationships.
Nelech · Sophomore Year in Israel
Explore
Within selected Gap Year programs
Hebrew proficiency is one of the greatest predictors of a successful experience in Israel. We provide accessible, high-quality Ulpan opportunities within selected gap year programs, enabling students to fully engage academically, socially, and professionally throughout their time in Israel.
Hebrew & Language Support
Prepare
11th grade · families
We provide all students and their families with a professional advisor who knows the Israeli system directly. They'll discuss your interests and strengths and what you are wondering about, lay out your options, and you'll get a clear picture of the paths that fit as well as the next steps.
Academic Guidance & Consultation
Gap Year
Gap year · seminary/yeshiva
The gap year is often when a future in Israel first feels real. We help you use that year to explore universities and service options.
Planning Ahead During Gap Year
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11th-12th grade
The front door to Israel's leading universities. A wide variety of undergraduate and graduate degree programs are available to you, taught in English and in hybrid English/Hebrew, with a clear path to apply. Once we know your goals and interests, we help you find the program, campus and lifestyle that best suits you.
Explore College in Israel
Apply
11th grade · families
We provide all students and their families with a professional advisor who knows the Israeli system directly. They'll discuss your interests and strengths and what you are wondering about, lay out your options, and you'll get a clear picture of the paths that fit as well as the next steps.
Application Support
University
Around university
National service is a meaningful way to contribute to Israeli society before or during a degree program. Ask us directly for guidance on programs like Sherut Leumi, mechina and other army pathways - lots more to come on this soon.
Sherut Leumi & Mechina
University
At university
Support once your student arrives. Today that means our Student Ambassadors, current students in Israel who mentor new arrivals, and English-first coursework that eases into Hebrew. We are also building out broader campus community support from there.
On-Campus Support
Why families trust us
Four things we BRING TO EVERY STUDENT
AND EVERY FAMILY WE GUIDE
We bring the best of experience to every question a student or family cannot answer alone... without overpromising.
01
Experience
Decades of work inside Israeli higher education. We have made the introductions and walked the applications before.
02
Expertise
We know how the Israeli system behaves: the timelines, the entry routes, the language pathways, and where families reliably get stuck.
03
University relationships
We work directly with the partner universities rather than around them. That is how the answers stay current and the introductions stay real.
04
Direct funding
The Foundation funds programs at the universities themselves. We improve the path, not only explain it.
OUR holistic APPROCH
the need we fill.
the question we answer.
Not one program at one moment. Five stages that run from ninth grade through university, and a family can enter at any of them. Most arrive somewhere in the middle.
University admissions representatives
Why choose our university?
Campus religious life organizations
What will Jewish life look like?
Government student authority
What official support am I entitled to?
The Future is Calling
Which Israeli option is right for me, and how do I navigate the process?
We do not represent one university or one program. We help students and their families understand the broader landscape and how the pieces fit together: which universities and programs are a good fit, the differences between cities and campuses, English and hybrid English/Hebrew programs, housing, costs, Jewish life, the application process, and what the transition from high school or a gap year actually looks like.
Holistic and continuous.
We guide students across the whole journey, from ninth grade onward, rather than helping with one step and disappearing. A family can arrive at any stage and stay through the next one.
A genuinely Israeli experience.
We help students actually integrate, which opens the internships, the research, and the relationships that an insulated bubble closes off. Belonging is the point, not proximity.
Real partnerships with the universities.
We fund and work directly with Israel's leading universities to open new programs and smooth the path. We improve the system rather than only navigating it.
Personalized, expert guidance.
Individual consultation that meets each family where they are, and that takes the emotional questions as seriously as the practical ones.