Welcome to the 2016 Aviv Seminar!
As in previous years, the WIZO International Aviv Seminar will take place in Tel Aviv November 13nd-17th, 2016.
The WIZO Aviv seminar is a week-long conference aimed at cultivating young Jewish women’s leadership. Attendees hail from 10 countries around the globe, including the US, England, Australia, Brazil, South Africa, Germany, Israel, Finland, Uruguay and Panama. Aviv is a special subgroup of WIZO, which was launched to encourage and nurture the next generation of WIZO leadership (until the age of 45).
The seminar has several goals, amongst others providing participants with leadership and public diplomacy (hasbara) training, giving participants tools for effective event planning, fundraising and membership recruitment, as well as allowing for networking and the exchange of ideas between the emerging leadership of WIZO federations worldwide.
In addition participants will experience the sights and sounds of Israel. Destinations will include the Levinsky Market in Tel Aviv, the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a of course visits to WIZO projects such as the Rebecca Sieff WIZO Centre for the Family, WIZO Hadassim Youth Village and more.
