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03 A message from the Chairman & Chief Executive

04 Merom HaGalil

05 Western Galilee College

06 Israel Tour

07 Gap Year

08-11 Our Projects

12-13 Financial Report

14 Our People

15 National & Governance Committees

Back Page Legacies

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A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN & CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Welcome to the 2013 Annual Report. This is our opportunity to thank you for helping UJIA fulfil our mission of changing the lives of young people in Israel and in our own Jewish community. This moment in Jewish history allows no time to relax. Israel faces enormous socio-economic challenges for her more vulnerable populations and we have the responsibility and privilege to partner the people of Israel in meeting them. We encounter no less of a challenge in the Jewish community in the UK in ensuring that young people have the passion and knowledge to be meaningful members of the Jewish people with a profound connection to Jewish life and Israel.

In the north of Israel, the Galil, this year we are drawing to a close two successful fundraising campaigns for major capital projects. The Tsfat Medical School is now up and running with its third cohort of students, and is becoming an ever more significant force in the whole region. With the doctor-to-patient ratio nearly half that in Tel Aviv, northern Israel’s only medical school is crucial in transforming healthcare in the periphery.

The brand new School of Management at Western Galilee College in Akko will be opening its doors in November 2014, ready to train new managers from both Jewish and Arab communities for the private, public and third sectors. With more locally skilled people at the middle management level, the Galil will become more viable as a base for business and economic development. You can watch a short video about the project at www.ujia.org/wgc.

We continue to support many other educational projects in the Galil that are helping young people pass school exams and college degrees and qualify for professions that will enable them to break out of the cycle of disadvantage which places 45% of children in the region below the internationally recognised poverty line. Our special programmes for at-risk youth are helping ensure that no one gets left behind.

UJIA, together with the Israeli Government and other philanthropic partners, is transforming the Galil with your generous support. But there is so much more to do. UJIA is now exploring a new range of both capital and educational projects that will help transform the landscape of the most under-resourced areas and enable even more young people to get the same quality of education that we demand for our own children.

03 A message from the Chairman & Chief Executive

04 Merom HaGalil

05 Western Galilee College

06 Israel Tour

07 Gap Year

08-11 Our Projects

12-13 Financial Report

14 Our People

15 National & Governance Committees

Back Page Legacies

Here in the UK, our support for the Youth Movements helped ensure that in 2013 an incredible 1,230 teens went to Israel on Tour – the highest proportion in the world from a major community. Since then, the number has increased in 2014. We also helped send over 400 young people to Israel for pre and post college gap year programmes. These young people come back and become the lifeblood of our Youth Movements and J-Socs, helping nurture even more people with a love of Israel and the Jewish people. In addition, 200 young people went on a UJIA Birthright trip last year.

We are also very proud of our work creating meaningful connections between young people here and in Israel. UJIA Magic Moments sees Galil teens commemorate Yom Hazikaron and celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut with shuls, schools and youth groups all over the UK. For 10 years our wonderful Ethiopian Bar/Bat Mitzvah twinning programme has been giving depth and vitality to the celebrations of British and Ethiopian families at this important moment in their lives.

We know there is still work to be done. Maintaining the extraordinary levels of participation cannot be taken for granted. We also need to improve the follow-up that happens to ensure that even more young people remain engaged and go on to become leaders in our community.

Our current campaign is a call to action to every member of our community to ‘Make your mark on the Jewish story’. The snapshots you are about to read shed light on the extraordinary people and programmes through which our donors are making their mark. Thank you again for your support and please continue to engage with Israel via UJIA.

Bill Benjamin Chairman bill.benjamin@ujia.org

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Michael Wegier Chief Executive michael.wegier@ujia.org

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Hagit Ben-Simon remembers what it was like to grow up in Merom HaGalil before UJIA got involved.

“Before I got married I was convinced that I wouldn’t live here,” says Ben-Simon. The building of the Hemed Primary School that she attended as a young girl was crumbling, with few facilities. There was no sports hall, no computers, no hot meals. The number of pupils plummeted from 200 at the start of the 1990s to just 130.

Seven years ago, UJIA came to Merom HaGalil, a region of rolling hills and forests around the ancient city of Tsfat near Israel’s border with Lebanon. We joined forces with The Rashi Foundation and the local Council to construct a state of the art campus including a new school building, a modern sports hall and an early childhood centre.

From being a failing school unable to serve its pupils, the new Lord Steinberg Hemed Torani-Environmental Primary School has been transformed into a successful institution that has the ability to serve not just the brightest but also the many children in the area with special needs.

Rachel Levy is a special education expert who has worked in the region for 40 years. Levy has witnessed both the transformation of the services offered and the community’s attitude towards them. She was among the founders of the Child Development Centre, based on the Merom HaGalil Educational Campus, established with funds from Britain.

“As someone who has been here for a long time, I can say that without the help, donations and support of UJIA and the British community all these years, we would never have reached where we are today with respect to kids with learning difficulties and special needs,” says Levy. “When we founded the centre 20 years ago, we had to go to people’s houses and convince them to bring the children we had identified with problems so we could help them. The parents were embarrassed. There was no awareness. They didn’t want it written in their children’s record that they had difficulties. They preferred the child to stay in class, finish primary school and then get thrown out of high school after a year or two.”

“We have now reached the point where if we tell a parent that we don’t have a place and they’ll have to wait, they get angry. It’s gone from zero awareness to the opposite extreme. They are now demanding treatment. That’s the greatest success I can imagine.

“Today, kids can finish Year 12 with a full matriculation, which previously those with learning difficulties and special needs weren’t able to do,” she says. “Today I see more and more pupils daring to take exams, and the school more and more willing to put them forward. They no longer say it’s impossible.”

To see a video about this project, please go to www.ujia.org/meromhagalil

HOW A CRUMBLING SCHOOL BECAME A BEACON

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T he Galil is one of the poorest parts of Israel. By all sorts of measures, such as levels of infant mortality, university

graduation, and per capita income, your life chances if you are born in the Galil are far worse than if you are born in the centre of the country.

The key to changing that situation is economic development, and the key to achieving that is attracting many more businesses. Western Galilee College conducted a study into what was currently holding back businesses from moving into the area.

“We found that the biggest obstacle was a serious lack of skilled management,” says Natalie Barak, the College’s Director of External Relations. “We really want to try and boost the region by having these skilled managers, people coming here to learn those skills. Then they stay here, they raise their families here, they are working in different service industries here, maybe even opening businesses.”

The solution put forward was a new, high quality School of Management and, as a key supporter of Western Galilee College, UJIA is making this happen.

As with all our major projects, we didn’t act alone. We put together a coalition of support including key philanthropic partners, like The Rashi Foundation, who we have worked with successfully on other major projects. The result is that the £6.3 million project is well underway, with around £1.5 million still to raise.

There can be little doubt about the difference it is going to make.

“Ben-Gurion had a vision about making the Negev and the Galilee flourish,” says Hilal Farraj, a Druze student who graduated last year in Middle East and Security Studies and now teaches at the College. “The college expresses what Ben-Gurion wanted 40 or 50 years ago. It’s like an educational garden here in Akko.”

“The impact on the region is huge,” says Farraj. “It’s like a flame here. Many of the people who study here are students from the area. That means more graduates in the area. It gives more opportunities for people to open businesses or become teachers. This is helping to develop the area.”

“We leave here with a greater academic ability to find work and a higher salary while staying in the Galilee and developing it,” says Inbal Dines, a Management student. “People who live in the Galilee prefer to stay in the Galilee. When you study and you can use the degree you’ve acquired and you have somewhere to work – which isn’t so easy these days – people prefer to stay here, where it’s green, in the beautiful north with the sea and the lakes – there’s no other place in the country like it. I know I won’t be moving from here.”

Natalie Barak, along with all the students of Western Galilee College, eagerly await the completion of the School of Management faculty building in November 2014. “We are already attracting faculty and students from other parts of the country and eventually we hope that we are going to be known nationwide as the place to learn.”

To find out more about this project, and ways you can support it, please go to www.ujia.org/wgc

HOW DO YOU GET MORE BUSINESSES TO THE GALIL?

TRAIN MORE MANAGERS

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F or most British teenagers, a one-month tour of Israel at the age of 16 is a rite of passage. For some,

the experience marks their first visit to the Jewish state. For others, it is a chance to renew their acquaintance with Israel after completing their GCSEs.

The tour experience has been on offer for 60 years and is today orchestrated by the various youth movements under the aegis of UJIA and the Jewish Agency, which provides a range of support. Tours are tailored to the participating groups, catering to all from the secular to the Orthodox. Bnei Akiva, FZY, BBYO, RSY – Netzer, Habonim Dror, JLGB, LJY-Netzer, Noam and Ezra were all represented among last year’s 1,230 tour-goers.

“It’s amazing,” says FZYnik Natalie Chaplin, a Watford Grammar girl. “I’ve never been to Israel before but I expected a good time, a spiritual connection and a tan – I’ve got them all.

For Ethan Herman, with BBYO, tour differs greatly from family visits to Israel. “My parents avoided seeing everything. I’d never been to Ein Gedi or a Bedouin tent. This experience is very different.”

Although camel riding in the south, snorkelling in Eilat and kayaking down the Jordan River form a fun part of the itinerary, trips to Holocaust memorial museum Yad Vashem and military cemetery Mount Herzl are integral to appreciating the serious side of Israeli history. Even though around 70 per cent of Jewish students in the UK go through Jewish schools, the tour groups receive

a bespoke education. And the impact is often emotional.

“My main role is to educate them, establish a connection to Israel rather than just Judaism,” explains FZY madrich Omri Elani, a 23-year-old former JFS student, who is leading a seminar preparing students for their imminent visit to Yad Vashem.

“Some say they have been to Yad Vashem before and don’t want to go again, but there’s always something new to learn. I tell them to educate other members of

the group and share what they know with people who have never been.”

UJIA Fundraising director David Goldberg says: “This tour is crucial in cementing the connection between Jewish life and Israel for these young people. The participants are going on to be the future representatives of their communities, supporting communal activities and engagement with Israel.”

For some families, the tours are unaffordable without financial support. This year, one-in-five participants received a bursary towards the cost from UJIA via an independent committee process, with a total outlay of £190,000. In addition, UJIA provides youth movements with £530,000 of core funding and assists with legal and financial planning.

Annabelle Lancaster has never been to Israel before. She received her bursary three days before the FZY group flew out. “My mum is a single mum and applied for a bursary, but at first we didn’t get the one we needed,” she explains.

“I thought it was a sign that I was not supposed to go, but my mum fought for me and we got the call. I want to get the experience as a whole — the religious and the fun side.”

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ISRAEL FOR REAL

Each year, UJIA helps over 1,800 young people go to Israel, investing £570,000 in Israel Engagement.

For the participants, it becomes one of the most formative experiences of their lives. We caught up with Leo, Katie, Ella and Dan, who are together on a Gap Year in Israel.

For Dan, the volunteering opportunities were an important part of the experience: “I feel that when we’re on a Gap Year, we take a lot from Israel, so being able to give back by volunteering in a school makes the whole experience feel a lot more rewarding. You really feel like you can get through to them, and that you’re teaching them something that they’ll be relying on later in life.”

Leo and Ella spent time volunteering at a centre for children from Africa receiving life-saving heart surgery.

Leo said: “We’ve got kids who are getting ready for surgery and others who are recovering, so they need something which will take their minds off the surgery and just make them happy and feel like kids.”

“The kids are so happy when they finally get their heart operation, and have recovered,” added Ella. “They’re constantly showing you their scars to say ‘I’ve had my operation and now I can go home.’ You feel like your job’s done.”

Natie Shevel, the Director of UJIA’s Israel Office gave the context: “There can be no doubt that engagement with Israel through a significant educational experience in this country, be it on Summer Tour or on Gap Year, offers a tremendous opportunity for young British Jews to engage with their past, and with their future.

“If you take a look at many of the graduates of youth movements who have gone on to assume leadership roles in the community, in synagogues and in communal organisations, many of them, if not all of them, are graduates of Israel Engagement programmes through UJIA.”

Katie summed up what a difference this Gap Year experience can make: “Being on my Gap Year in Israel has changed me for the better. I feel so much closer to Israel and I’ve experienced so many things that England just doesn’t offer. This is something I’m never going to forget. Ever.”

See more of this story on video at www.ujia.org/gapyear

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UJIA ISRAEL PROGRAMME

Ayalim

Based in a deprived area of Kiryat Sh’mona, Ayalim provides students with a grant towards their studies and free living expenses in return for their volunteering in the community for 500 hours annually.

Bar Ilan University Faculty of Medicine, Tsfat

Together with Bar Ilan University, UJIA led this pioneering project to create the north’s only medical school. The new campus for teaching and research will help to meet the shortage of doctors in Israel – a problem that is most acute in peripheral areas like the Galil. UJIA also provides scholarships and financial assistance to students in need.

Environmental Youth Cadets in Sha’ab

This programme raises environmental awareness and develops leadership skills among young people through establishing an environmental youth cadet group. The programme is run in the non-Jewish town of Sha’ab.

Eshbal

Eshbal works with alienated at-risk young people, helping them to turn their lives around, enabling them to become happy, productive members of adult society. The kibbutz, and the associated day school, provide a nurturing environment, where the teenagers talk through their experiences and take part in unique therapeutic activities, like caring for horses and dogs, which have a huge impact on their self-confidence and wellbeing.

Hatzor Scholarships

We fund scholarships in the deprived Hatzor area of the Galil, for graduates of the local AMIT-Mishcon School, and other residents needing financial assistance for higher education.

Individualised Learning Programme at Western Galil High School

Based in Ma’ale Yosef, the programme provides a comprehensive mapping of students’ academic, cognitive and social needs, which allows school staff to tailor learning to the needs of the individual.

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Israel Youth Awards

This is Israel’s version of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme and provides volunteering opportunities for young people to work together and make a contribution to their community.

Jordan River Village

The Village enriches the lives of Jewish, Muslim and Christian children (aged 9-18) in the region, suffering from serious illnesses and life-threatening conditions, by creating free, fun-filled, memorable and medically safe camping experiences. UJIA funded the on-site medical centre which has hospital status.

Kishorit

Kishorit is a unique community for adults with a variety of special needs, including mental health problems and physical and learning disabilities. Modelled on a kibbutz, Kishorit provides a supportive environment for its members who benefit from communal life, therapy and the opportunity to work.

Merom HaGalil Educational Programme

This is a comprehensive programme working across the region to change the status of educational achievement, benefiting some 2,100 children, who tend to be two years behind the primary school national average.

Merom HaGalil Regional Sports Hall

The sports hall, located on the UJIA-supported Merom HaGalil Educational Campus, provides children and adults with opportunities to develop physical fitness and obtain skills in individual and team sports.

Netiv Tefachot

This unique yeshiva reaches out to young adults who come from poor urban neighbourhoods and development towns. Students master Jewish sources, acquire a viable profession to escape the cycle of disadvantage and join national service and volunteer organisations.

Project Ten

This is a Tikun Olam (Repair the World) initiative in partnership with the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) and Masa. UJIA is supporting the programme in the northern Galil town of Kiryat Shmona, where young Jewish adults from Israel and abroad come together to spend three months working and learning in this Gap Year Scheme for 18-30s.

Shlomi Educational Programmes

Following the completion of the new Esfandi-Isaacs ORT Shlomi High School, UJIA provides a range of academic, vocational and social programmes, to ensure that every child is able to realise his or her full potential.

Tel-Hai College

UJIA has made a major contribution to this groundbreaking college near Kiryat Shmona, supporting the Centre for Learning Disabled, two new faculty buildings and a dormitory, as well as scholarships for computer science and other students.

Tsofen

Tsofen works to integrate Israeli Arabs into Israel’s high tech industry, which brings crucial new business to the Galil and helps bridge socio-economic gaps between Arabs and Jews in the region.

Western Galilee College, New School of Management

Western Galilee College near Akko, provides academic training to a wide range of students, the majority of whom come from non-academic backgrounds. UJIA is funding a new School of Management, which will train the next generation of managers to lead the public sector, civil society and business in the Galil. We are also providing scholarships for students.

Youth Futures

Youth Futures is a mentoring programme for ‘at-risk’ children in elementary and junior high schools in the peripheral areas of Israel. UJIA works with Youth Futures in the Galil, helping build self esteem, improve school performance and break patterns of failure.

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UJIA UK PROGRAMME

Bursaries

UJIA believes that every Jewish young person should have an opportunity to participate in a UJIA-backed programme in Israel, whether the family is able to afford it or not. For those in the community who are unable to afford the cost, the UJIA supports them with a means-tested bursary.

Extended Programmes in Israel/Gap Year

Each year UJIA sends young adults on a wide variety of learning and volunteering programmes throughout Israel, which range in length from five months to one year.

Israel Tour

Israel Tour gives on average 50% of Jewish 16 year-olds the opportunity of a lifetime each year. Exploring Israel on an educational tour is crucial in shaping a young person’s Jewish identity and bond with the country. Participants discover firsthand the remarkable story of the Jews, the values and texts of Jewish tradition, and the challenges and dilemmas facing Jews and Israelis today. UJIA Israel Experience trains madrichim (leaders) and provides welfare and logistical support for this flagship programme.

Limmud Galil

Limmud takes place in 50+ places around the world. Limmud UK has a special link with Limmud Galil through the UJIA People-to-People Programme. UJIA runs preparatory sessions in Israel and London prior to Limmud Conference in the UK, and we subsidise delegates to attend Limmud UK.

Sefer l’veit sefer

A unique project to bring English books to Israeli schools and Hebrew books to Jewish schools in the UK, through the UJIA People-to- People Programme.

UJIA Arsenal in the Community

For the last four years, UJIA has partnered Arsenal Football Club to coach boys and girls, both Jewish and non-Jewish, in the mixed Arab-Jewish city of Akko.

UJIA Birthright

UJIA implements the Taglit-Birthright Israel Programme in the UK. Each year, up to eight groups totalling over 200 participants are organised, offering young Jewish adults an inspirational free ten-day educational visit to Israel. The aim is to engage young adults to reconnect with their Jewish identity, through an informative trip to Israel.

UJIA Ethiopian Bar/Bat Mitzvah Programme (EBBM)

The People-to-People programme aids the integration of Ethiopian olim (immigrants) into Israeli society and encourages Jewish life, while simultaneously creating a living bridge between the UK participants and their Ethiopian counterparts.

UJIA JAMS (Jewish Activities in Mainstream Schools) and Educational Resources

UJIA JAMS enables Jewish students in non-Jewish schools to receive a well structured, professionally delivered range of Jewish interest programmes. UJIA JAMS engages young people, some of whom have no other contact with the Jewish community, to develop their Jewish identity and their leadership skills. UJIA JAMS currently works with a total of 32 schools in the UK.

UJIA Magic Moments

UJIA Magic Moments (part of the UJIA People-to-People Programme) brings 60 young people aged between 14 and 17 from the Galil on an annual week-long visit to communities in the UK. The week culminates with the young Israelis putting on a Yom Hazikaron ceremony and participating in Yom Ha’atzmaut celebrations. Their British counterparts visit Israel the following October.

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UJIA School-to-School Programme

The UJIA School-to-School Programme (part of the UJIA People-to-People Programme) twins schools in the UK with those in the Galil. It brings together hundreds of children, parents and teachers in the UK and the Galil. By building long-term relationships between children and adults in the partner communities, the programme strengthens the participants’ Jewish identity and enhances the curricula of both schools.

Union of Jewish Students (UJS)

UJIA is one of the three main funders of UJS, which provides effective delivery of support and services via university Jewish Societies (JSocs) to approximately 5,000 Jewish students every year. UJIA also works with UJS to offer university preparation programmes for sixth formers.

Youth Movement, Training and Welfare

UJIA works in partnership with all the Jewish Youth Movements across the religious spectrum, providing significant financial support and helping them to offer successful and meaningful programmes for their members. Youth Movements receive support via core and project funding, educational consultancy, legal, health and safety advice, mentoring and personal and professional development for individual movement workers.

Partnership Projects

UJIA is proud to have initiated and developed the following partnership projects:

Partnerships for Jewish Schools (PaJeS) which works with Jewish schools to improve Jewish education and help to provide resources where required.

Jewish Curriculum Partnership (JCP) to develop a national curriculum for Jewish schools including Jewish Studies, Chumash (Bible), Hebrew and Tefillah (prayer) and provide training seminars for Jewish Studies and Ivrit teachers.

Jewish Leadership Excellence and Development (LEAD) to establish a community-wide resource to help transform the Jewish community’s leadership.

Additional Grants and Organisational Support

Maccabi GB aims to deliver a broad range of sporting, educational and social events for the whole of the Jewish community with the ethos of Jewish continuity and the centrality of Israel as their primary motivations. Maccabi currently runs over 200 programmes a year.

UJIA also supports the educational activities of a number of organisations in the Jewish community. These include Limmud, Redbridge Jewish Youth and Community Centre, Leo Baeck College, Jewish Volunteer Network, Yoni Jesner Award, March of the Living and Mitzvah Day.

Regions

UJIA supports the regional Jewish communities of Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and Glasgow through its support of schools, youth clubs and communal educational activities. For example:

Community workers and shlichim (emissaries).

The Zone in Leeds, which is a highly active Jewish youth centre. It provides a central space for young people to strengthen their understanding of and commitment to their heritage.

In Glasgow, every other year UJIA Israel Experience organises an educational visit to Poland for Jewish young adults. This has become a vital part of their continuing Jewish journey.

UJIA FINANCIAL REPORT

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Total 2013

Total 2012

£’000 £’000

INCOME

Voluntary income 9,948 9,876

Legacy income 817 692

Investment income 88 223

TOTAL INCOME 10,853 10,791

EXPENDITURE

Israel programmes

Galil initiatives

Educational infrastructure (capital projects) 1,487 2,715

Educational programmes 1,413 1,840

Social welfare & medical programmes 533 516

Employment & small business programmes 21 37

3,454 5,108

Other programmes in Israel

Educational programmes 848 795

Social welfare & medical programmes 541 598

Absorption & victim support 37 -

1,426 1,393

4,880 6,501

UK programmes

Educational programmes 2,188 2,963

Israel Experience 696 765

Research & evaluation 94 58

Living bridge programmes 126 111

Leadership development 88 140

3,192 4,037

Community programmes

Community information & education 802 755

Welfare 394 417

1,196 1,172

Total programme expenditure 9,268 11,710

National campaign activities 1,831 1,873

Governance 69 73

1,900 1,946

TOTAL EXPENDITURE 11,168 13,656

Excess of income over expenditure (expenditure over income) for the year (315) (2,865)

CONSOLIDATED REPORT

SPLIT OF PROGRAMME EXPENDITURE 2013

ANALYSIS OF TOTAL EXPENDITURE 2013

Consolidated income and expenditure statement year ended 30 September 2013

These figures have been extracted from the audited accounts of UJIA and associated organisations.*Analysis out of total expenditure

1% Governance 16% National campaign activities

83% Total programme expenditure*

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35%UK PROGRAMMES

13% COMMUNITY PROGRAMMES

15% OTHER PROGRAMMES IN ISRAEL

37% GALIL INITIATIVES

37%

35%

15%

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Honorary TreasurerWarren Persky*

TrusteesKeith Black

James Burchell

Karen Harris

Jeremy Isaacs

Stuart Levy

Robert Randall

Ruth Green

Alex Dwek

Jonathan Morris

*Also Trustees of UJIA

SENIOR STAFF

Chief ExecutiveMichael Wegier

Finance DirectorEyal Samuel

Fundraising DirectorDavid Goldberg

Programme & Planning DirectorRoy Graham

Legacy & Planned Giving DirectorHarvey Bratt

Research & Evaluation Director Community Israel Engagement DirectorDr Helena Miller

Israel Regional DirectorNatie Shevel MBE

Communications DirectorDebbie Joseph

OUR PEOPLE

Honorary PresidentsThe Lord Levy

The Rt Hon The Lord Woolf

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

Honorary Vice-PresidentsLord Janner Of Braunstone QC

Gerald M Ronson CBE

PresidentsSir Trevor Chinn CVO

David M Cohen

Mick Davis

Brian Kerner

Vice PresidentsMichael Bradfield

Stanley Cohen OBE

Alan Fox

Michael Goldstein FCA

Dov Hamburger

Ronald Preston

Stephen Rubin OBE

Sir Harry Solomon

Anthony Spitz

Prof Anthony Warrens

Michael Ziff

ChairmanBill Benjamin*

Vice-ChairmanGeoffrey Ognall*

Regional Chairmen

Glasgow

Ashley Gold

Richard Pinder

Leeds

Martin Harris

Liverpool

David Samson

Manchester

Andrew Joseph

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National & Governance CommitteesTrusteesBill Benjamin (Chair)Keith BlackJames BurchellKaren HarrisJeremy IsaacsStuart LevyGeoffrey OgnallRobert RandallRuth GreenAlex DwekJonathan MorrisWarren Persky

Finance CommitteeWarren Persky (Chair)Geoffrey OgnallVeronica KennardPhillip ShapiroMelvin Berwald

Fundraising Committees: LondonCampaign Cabinet Co-Chairs James BurchellJonathan Morris

Patrons CommitteeKeith Black (Chair)Bill BenjaminStuart LevyJonathan Morris James Burchell

Annual Dinner CommitteeKeith Black (Chair)Ruth GreenIan Marcus Lauren FriedJames BurchellMarc Lester

Women’s CommitteeJacqueline Fine (Chair)Ann Goldstein Dalia SehayekEdwina SterlingRoberta RoseSamantha Stone

Skirt Network CommitteeLauren AbramsRachel GoldingKaren GoodkindVicky SakhaiDeborah ShafierJacqueline FineSimone Colp

Yom Ha’Atzmaut Business BreakfastMichael Goldstein (Chair)

Legacy and Planned Giving CommitteeGeoffrey Ognall (Chair)Jeffrey CohenJack SilverstoneElliot ConwayDeborah MyersGloria Goldstein

Legal CommitteeAndrew Shindler (Co-Chair)Samantha Leek (Co-Chair)Jacob LevyEdward BarnettJonathan Morris Paul JaysonFrank MillerZohar Zik Warren TaylorJonathan Benjamin Mark WagnerKatie Jacobson

Sports CommitteeSteve Schindler (Chair)Simon TrayJonathan LaufferRobert Waterman

South African GroupLauren FriedCandice Cresswell

French GroupSimon Tobelem (Chair)

American GroupDavid Novak (Chair) Blair JacobsonAudrey KleinAlan Shaffron

Youth Movement Alumni CommitteeRuth GreenAlex DwekRafi AddelstoneMichael Goldstone Mikey HarrisJonathan LevyIlan Scorah

South LondonMervyn Smith (Chair)Michael Kelion Raymond Wicksman Ronald Ison Simon Joseph

New LondonDavid Immanuel (Co-Chair) Cyril Korn (Co-Chair) Ofra ImmanuelYvonne KornLeonard Krikler Lilly KriklerBess TeegerSam GraffMildred GraffTony Norton

EalingNeil ShestopalDawn ShestopalMarianne TemplePeter Young

Young Patrons CommitteeIlan Scorah (Co-Chair)Rupert Bennett (Co-Chair)

Y-UJIA CommitteeDaniel Diamond (Co-Chair) Cara Melzack (Co-Chair)Richard AbrahamsStephanie HornAndy SimonShara HikmetRyan TuckerJo MosesThomas GoolnikAdam LevittMark AbramsAmanda ShoffmanClare WayneMark KingsleyRoxy Kaye

Young Property GroupElliot Goodman (Co-Chair)Ray Bloom (Co-Chair)Avi OrensteinAndrew GreenNina BenaimMark KoberNatalie SteinMartin RothBen Deal Daniel LightstoneMarsha RabinovichAron StorferLen Bloom

Young Holocaust Survivor EventsJessi Tucker (Chair)

Fundraising Committees: RegionsManchester Cabinet CommitteeAndrew Joseph (Chair)Ben ShapiroDov HamburgerJoel RoseblattKeith BlackNici WertheimRichard SciamaStephen Elias

Manchester AMBASamantha Bernstein (Chair)Nici WertheimTrudie MesrieCindy Hamburger

Belinda LeveneHelena BowerJo Rosenblatt

Manchester Bike Ride Andrew Kingsley (Co-Chair)Joel Rosenblatt (Co-Chair)

Manchester Young UJIAGary Freeman (Chair)

Liverpool FundraisingDavid Samson (Chair)Marian DaddsSara Radivan

SouthportAngella Carne (Chair)

Fylde (St Annes & Blackpool)Robert Pinkus (Chair)

Leeds CommitteeMartin Harris (Chair) Allan Taylor Peter Brostoff Alvin Jacobs Alan Ziff Paul Gross David Israel Brian Plainer Or NehushstanAndrew TunickSimon Phillips

Leeds Women’s CommitteeNorma Collins (Chair) Judith Caplan Adele ManningAdrienne Freedman Barbara Danon Lynn HirschfieldMichelle Nathan Monica Walton Patricia FalkPatricia MackRoselyn ManningSuzanne Ziff

Leeds Legacy CommitteeMichael Freedman (Chair) David Bickler Peter BrostoffLouis Harris

Newcastle Alfred Ingram (Co-Chair)Werner Maier (Co-Chair)

SheffieldFrada Wilenski

Glasgow Campaign CommitteeRichard Pinder (Co-Chair)Ashley Gold (Co-Chair)Elaine BenjaminCheryl GoldGeoffrey NathanGary WinstonJack SilverstoneRochelle PinderDarren Wilson

Programme CommitteesProgramme and Planning ChairsLouise Jacobs (Chair)Andrew GilbertPerry CashMarc HermanRoy GrahamBrian MayNatie Shevel

UK Programme CommitteeSimon Berman Jonathan BuntBen Cahn Barry DavidsonAlex DwekAndrew Gilbert Rael Goodman Ruth GreenLouise JacobsEliot KayeDerek LivingstonRichard ManningBarny Nemko Ben ShapiroWayne Snyder

Youth Movement StrategyGideon LyonsRafi AddlestoneBarny NemkoCharlotte GillisMichael LivingstonJeremy RosenbergRachel Yona

Allocations CommitteeAndrew Gilbert (Chair)Barny Nemko Ben Russell Charlie Gluckman Ashley FairfieldJack PrevezerJenny Walton Joe Franses Matti Fruhman Matthew Granger Rael Goodman Simi Ben Hur

Research & Evaluation – Evaluation CommitteeJeremy Isaacs Melvyn BerwaldPhilip Shapiro

Israel Experience Strategy CommitteeWayne Snyder (Co-Chair)Jonathan Bunt (Co-Chair)Jessie SchlagmanRebecca FisherGemma Gluckman Ben FraserMatthew GrangerFrancesca Woolfe

Israel Experience Bursary CommitteeBen Cahn (Chair)Adam LevyJoanne RamsLee SidneyKatie FineGreg RackRichard GoldsteinMichael LivingstonRussell CallerBen DaddsMatthew GrangerJonathan LevyStuart BookatzDavid KraftmanAndrea BurnsAndrew GilbertVictoria CohenAngela KillenSpencer GeldingSteven SavageGilad SegalAndrew LeveneSharman BerwaldBen MorrisonDavid AaronbergHarold GittelmonDavid GilbertRuth GreenGaby MorrisShoshana BacallAngela SkryKaren Lewis Wayne Snyder

Campus Partnership CommitteeMatthew GrangerDaniel GreeneDavid Brown

Schools Informal Education CommitteeSimon Berman (Chair)Daniel GreeneJoanne GreeneJosh MartinFlora RichardsAndrew GilbertMatthew GrangerDaniel QuintNoeleen Cohen Sophie Silver

Living Bridge Steering CommitteePerry Cash (Chair)Loretta CashKaren GoodkindLorraine SarsbySusy Stone

Living Bridge – Magic Moments CommitteeLorraine Sarsby (Chair)Karen PomeranceLisbeth GilmoreMichelle LeveneRocki Ezekiel

Living Bridge – EBBMKaren Goodkind (Chair)Marcelle Glantz

Living Bridge – School to SchoolSusy Stone (Chair)Perry CashIrene KayJan Roseman

Manchester Advisory CommitteeAndrew Joseph (Chair)Alan HodariAndrew KingsleyBarrie TaubeBelinda LeveneBen ShapiroCharles SpielerDaniel BerkeDavid EventhallJoel RosenblattKeith BlackMark ClyneNici WertheimRichard SciamaSimone PeppiBenjy BlackSam BernsteinLydia Engler Stuart Marks

Manchester Executive CommitteeAndrew Joseph (Chair)Brian AbramsDavid ScorahDov HamburgerEric AbramsGeoff LeinhardtKeith BlackMartin SluckisMel RosenthalMurray FinkPhil ShapiroRichard SciamaSusan Abrams

Leeds UK Programmes CommitteeRichard Manning (Chair) David Israel Allan Taylor Dilani DresserSimon Jackson Stanley Cundle Susie GordonOr Nehushstan

Glasgow Programmes CommitteeDerek Livingston (Chair)Elaine BenjaminAdam BerkleyAdele ConnPaul MorronGillian QuigleySean WinstonHazel Tenby

Liverpool UK ProgrammesBarry Davidson (Chair)Linda HuglinVictor HuglinDavid Coleman

Israel Programme Committee Brian MaySimon OlswangMelvin BerwaldPhilip ShapiroPerry CashDaniel GoldsteinCaroline Walsh

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F or two thousand years the Jewish people longed for a national home in Israel. We are privileged to be part of

the generation that is incredibly blessed – we are alive to witness that dream become a reality. But none of us lives forever, and when we pass on our blessings and our hopes to the next generation, as they were passed on to us, we also have the opportunity to make a mark on that continuing Jewish journey.

For most people, their Estate creates a potential for giving that is far greater than they can make in their lifetime. By allocating a portion of your Estate to UJIA, your Will is a tremendous opportunity to make your own mark on the Jewish story.

In Israel, UJIA’s education projects help a new generation of young people to participate fully in the life of Israel. We change tens of thousands of lives. That of course benefits those individuals personally, but it also contributes to Israel’s economy and creates a more cohesive society for its citizens. And just as we help develop Israel, Israel can build and sustain our own Jewish community here in the UK.

Israel is a catalyst for Jewish creativity and vitality. UJIA is the key funder for over 12 UK youth movements and a raft of informal Jewish education programmes, with Israel as their focus, including arranging educational visits to Israel for young people. A trip to Israel at a formative moment in life is the single most effective way to create a lasting affinity not just with Israel, but for Jewish life in general. This is the future you could be supporting through your Legacy. There are distinct tax advantages, but the importance of UJIA’s work applies whether it has the taxman’s help or not. We all have the privilege and opportunity of helping to write the next chapter in the Jewish story.

UJIA’s Director of Legacies and Planned Giving, Harvey Bratt, would be delighted to assist you with any issues concerning your Will, tax planning and the management of your Estate, and his services are free if you leave a Legacy to UJIA*.

Do give Harvey a call on 020 7424 6431, email harvey.bratt@ujia.org or visit www.ujia.org/leave-a-legacy

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