Get a head start with a full Gap Year experience
Join our Gap Year!
Oct 24, 2022 – May 22, 2023.
Build your career
Explore israel
uncover jewish wisdom
In partnership with
Build your career
Explore Israel
Uncover Jewish wisdom
Forget Gap Year, think whole year
Olami JHealth has partnered with jInternship, leading medical hospitals, research centers across Israel, and a team of medical professionals to provide medical gap-year students opportunities to expand their medical horizons, create new opportunities and meet medical leaders in their fields. While you’re deepening your professional knowledge, you will be offered the opportunity to explore Israel and medical Jewish wisdom. Â
Why take a gap year?
Travel and grow your resume.
Access outstanding internships
Intern at top Israel medical facilities including Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital, Shaare Zedek hospital, Ministry of Health, Hebrew University and Clalit
Work on a research project
Join a team and work on a research project under the Israel Ministry of Health
Be matched with a mentor
Let us find your perfect mentor and get professional advice and guidance from a leader in the medical field
Network with medical professionals
Make connections with top medical professionals and peers
Sample weekly itinerary
Subject to change.
Learn from outstanding mentors and speakers
Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg
Associate Clinical Professor of Medical Ethics at the Hebrew University–Hadassah Medical School in JerusalemÂ
Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Professor in the Division of Education and Bioethics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz
Physician and world-renowned expert in Jewish medical ethics
Dr. Deena Zimmerman
Medical Advisor to the Jerusalem Breastfeeding Center
Dr. Tzvi Wilbur
Director of the Horizon Track in Jewish Medical Ethics in Technion American Medical School Program.
And more…
A holistic year
FAQ
The program will run Oct 24, 2022 – May 22, 2023.
The group will be staying in beautiful, new apartments in central Jerusalem, close to medical centers, shopping and nightlife.
The cost is $6,900 (MASA grants available to further reduce price), including accomodation, insurance, public transport in your city and some food.
- $500 non-refundable deposit due upon registration. This amount goes towards the program fee.
- March 1: $1600 due (25% of fee.) – refundable.
- April 1: $1600 due (50% of fee.) – refundable.
- June 1: $1600 due (75% of fee.) – non-refundable at this point, unless there is a medical need or if the program is canceled due to COVID.
- Aug 1: $1600 due (100% of fee. Full payment due.) – refundable only if the program is canceled due to COVID.
During your free time in the evenings and weekends, you’ll have the opportunity to tour around Israel, experience hospitality from Israeli families and more.
Please contact our team if you have any questions! Click here or email jhealth@olami.org.
About us
Olami JHealth is a campus-based professional community with dozens of chapters across North America. Join us and connect with like-minded students, develop your leadership abilities and meet with mentors and stand-out personalities from the health field from across the country.