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Translation of budget items that could relate to foreign relations activity.
First, Income (cells B4:C11) in the attachments (נספחים) worksheet:
Income 5772
Membership fees income (attachment 1) ₪2,192,308
additional income (attachment 2) ₪5,692,500
Additional sources
Expected ISTA dividends ₪300,000
total income ₪8,184,808
total expenses ₪8,184,808
Second, income (cells B14:C33) in the attachments (נספחים) worksheet:
Membership fees income (attachment 1) 5772 comments
at 8.4 per student ₪ 2,192,308 Note1
additional income (attachment 2) 5772 comments
income from student cards ₪600,000 Note2
ISTA advertising ₪120,000
ISTA scholarships ₪275,000
365 scholarships ₪300,000
Office of retirees scholarship project ₪2,317,500 Note3
National Traffic Safety Authority scholarships ₪150,000 Note3
Ministry of Foreign Affairs scholarship project ₪180,000 Note3
Ksharim [contacts] organization scholarshipproject
₪600,000 Note3
Jewish Agency Scholarship project ₪100,000 Note3
Presidents Seminar ₪50,000
Negev & Galilee - for leadership center ₪500,000
Nefesh Yehudi org. - for leadership center ₪300,000
Jewish Agency - for leadership center ₪150,000
Berl Katzenelson Foundation - for leadershipcenter
₪50,000
Total ₪5,692,500
Note 3 appears in cell B6 of the annotations (םירואיב) worksheet:
Conditional upon signing contracts.
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Third, expenses for the Foreign Relations Department (cells B72:D82) in the attachments
(נספחים) worksheet:
Foreign Relations Department(Attachment 5)
5772 comments
Salary for Department Head₪
69,120 note4
Summer U ₪5,000
Israel - St. Petersburg delegation ₪20,000
Poland Delegation ₪30,000
Humanitarian delegation ₪10,000
Participating in ESU conferences & seminarsabroad
₪25,000
ESU membership fees ₪21,000
Stand with us ₪5,000
Wujs ₪5,000
Total ₪190,120
Note 4 appears in cell B7 of the annotations (םירואיב) worksheet:
Wages are calculated according to 160 hours a month * NIS 30 an hour for first year students,NIS 33 per hour for second year students, and NIS 36 per hour for third year students.
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[NUIS Work Plan, page 77:]
Foreign Relations Department
Vision: “The Foreign Relations Department will act to strengthen the link between the student
population in Israel and students around the world, and to develop their dialog. The Department will represent the union with international organizations and will be a partner in the general national effort of explaining [hasbara] Israel around the world.”
Targets:
1. The Department will harness itself to the national effort to explain [hasbara] the position of Israel in the world.
2. The Department will act to intensify ties between Israeli students and students around theworld.
3. The Department will act to entrench the Union’s position in the international arena.
4. The Department will develop the mutual relationships between the union and various
organizations relating to its activity, in Israel and around the world.
Specifying goals for the targets:
1. The Department will harness itself to the national effort to explain [hasbara] the
position of Israel in the world.
1A. Goal: the Department will act, in cooperation with government ministries andadditional organizations, to improve the explanation [hasbara] of Israel’s position around
the world.
Plan: In the face of the multiplicity of organizations in Israel that do hasbara and the lackof any real coordination and cooperation among them, the Union will act to form “a
round table” where the various organizations will take part. The cooperation is meant toempower the methods of hasbara and to pool resources. Additionally, it is the goal of theUnion to expand the hasbara done by Israeli students, and through them present the
pretty face of Israel. It is the Department’s aspiration that through this cooperation, thenumber of delegations and events in which the student population takes place willexpand, and that the support by government ministries will also expand, in future, in
sending NUIS delegations abroad and subsidizing them.
Operational organization: Foreign Relations Department head, NUIS president.
Metric Work Plan Target
Writing a general joint
operative plan
Creating a “round table” for forming a
plan that will pool forces andresources; additionally, the plan will
make it clear why the NUIS and thestudents should be used in favor of practical hasbara.
December 2011
Holding work meetings topromote the hasbara plan
Holding work meetings at the NUIS. Every other month
Receiving subsidies for this Further to the meetings, we will want Throughout the
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years’ delegations to receive aid and subsidies for the5772 delegations.
year.
1B. Target: expanding the number of ambassadors who explain Israel’s policy aroundthe world.
Plan: using students who go on delegations abroad on behalf of the Union(approximately 250 students a year) for hasbara purposes. Before each delegation the
students will undergo a hasbara workshop on behalf of the Ministry of Hasbara, whichwill give them the tools and information to contend with the questions and the critical
salvos and the ability to present in their stead “a different Israel”.
Operational organization: Foreign Relations Department head.
Metric Work Plan Target
Training the students After selecting the students for adelegation, the students will undergo
a hasbara workshop given on behalf
of the Ministry of Hasbara, where thelogistics are coordinated by theDepartment head. This training will be
a condition for the student’s going on
any delegation this year.
Every delegationthis year.
1C. Target: Explaining Israeli policy in the European Student Union.
Plan: writing reports for the ESU. Operational organization: Foreign Relations
Department head.
Metric Work Plan Target
Quarterly report Sending a quarterly report to the ESUabout the situation in Israel, relying
on reports issued by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Hasbara, the
SWU organization, and others.
January, April,July, October
2012
* Reports will also be sent ad hoc, as needed.
1D. Target: sending out a humanitarian delegation.
Plan: “Tikkun Olam” [repairing the world] - a delegation of Israeli students will go on ahumanitarian task in the world.
Operational organization: Foreign Relations Department head & and Nefesh Yehudi[Jewish Soul] organization.
Metric Work Plan Target
Raising funds for thedelegation
Approaching the Ministry of ForeignAffairs, the Ministry of Hasbara and
December 2011
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the Nefesh Yehudi organization withthe goal of obtaining financing for thehumanitarian delegation.
Planning the delegation Collaborating with the Nefesh Yehudiorganization in favor of planning the
delegation.
April 2011
Publishing the delegation Issuing a shout-out for students bymeans of the associations and
distributing the information about thedelegation in the ESU.
May 2012.
Recruiting the students Receiving applications, sorting them,selecting them
June 2012
Preparatory meeting Preparatory meeting and preparing
the delegation.
August 2012
Lessons learned Collecting responses from students
who participated in the delegationand analysis thereof. Learninglessons for integration into the 5773
work plan.
September 2012.
[Goal 1 is translated in full. Goals 2-4 are summarized hereunder:]
2. The Department will act to intensify ties between Israeli students and students aroundthe world.
2A - sending a student delegation to visit the death camps in Poland. Subsidies to be obtainedfrom Nefesh Yehudi.
2B - Strengthening contacts with world Jewry.
3. The Department will act to entrench the Union’s position in the international arena.
3A - Increasing the number of Israeli representatives at the various committees of the ESU andits managing committee (EC) for the purpose of increasing the scope of influence on the ESU &
especially the EC. This will be supported by the SWU [Stand With Us?].
3B - Participation in ESU conferences and seminars. For the express purpose of enhancingpower for the NUIS, which requires regular and ongoing participation in organizationconferences.
3C - enhancing contacts between Israeli and North American students via cooperation with
Hillel and mutual visits by delegations.
4. The Department will develop the mutual relationships between the union andvarious organizations relating to its activity, in Israel and around the world.
4A - Promoting the Taglit [Birthright] project in Israel to host hundreds of students fromapproximately 20 campuses.
4B - Implementing the Young Leadership program, in cooperation with Stand With Us. Sixproject groups, 30 students each.
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4C - Enhancing contacts with student exchange programs. South Korea and the U.S. arementioned.
4D - The Department will formalize the foreign relations policies for member studentsassociations.
[Further, of interest, on page 59:]
2E - operating a plan to combat ant Semitism on the Internet by means of 23 scholarshiprecipients.
Ambassador project, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Timeline:
October 2011 - shout out to students and receiving applications.
November 2011 - Ministry of Foreign Affairs training
December 2011 - end of June 2012 - students to work at home based on tasks divided inadvance, and to report regularly via the pre-determined forums.
February 2012 - refresher meeting with a MoFA rep
End of June 2012 - students to end their activity.