WBA - Limmud

Limmud is an uplifting, inspiring and empowering gap year program in Israel with World Bnei Akiva. You’ll learn new skills, enhance old ones, develop your Jewish identity and adapt to new environments - all while enjoying the group experience.

On Limmud you’ll spend significant time at Yeshiva or Midrasha, as well as the legendary Bnei Akiva experience of Israel, including Kibbutz, Shabbatot, seminars, community volunteering and MDA ambulance volunteering.

During the Mechina period you’ll also experience orienteering, camping, physical training combined with learning about Zionism, Hasbara, Leadership, and all infused with the Bnei Akiva Ideology.

Limmud will also enable you to grow Jewishly. You will come back with a clearer understanding of what it means to be Jewish for you, and the skills, drive and passion to develop your own Jewish identity.

Limmud is all about learning and giving. It’s a year for yourself, but also a chance to contribute to society around you.

The participants will join a Mechina Olamit with Israeli adolescents who are preparing to go into the IDF. Limmud is a once in a lifetime chance for participants to develop independence and deepen their connection to the land of Israel, not through buses and touring but by engaging with the land and living with and among its people.