Avital Goshen Case Study

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Avital Goshen is a second year student of government. Last year she volunteered at the students union, toke part at Tempus program and at Emmbasadors club. She toke parts at different programs that strengthen the connections between Jews in the diaspora and Israel. Some of the program she did where a gap tear in a Jewish community in Connecticut, a counselor in a summer camo in massachisets and being a counselor for teens from Michigan who came to explorer Israel. In her army service Avital was an officer at the communication force and was mainly responsible for the siren horn in northen Israel.

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