Israel Trek

Israel Trek offers Harvard students an unparalleled opportunity to experience Israel firsthand and engage with the complexity of the region beyond headlines and campus debates. This student-organized immersion trip explicitly aims to expose participants of all backgrounds to a broad mix of perspectives on the country, its peoples, its politics, and its history. The speaker program runs the political, cultural, and religious gamut, featuring voices ranging from investigative journalists to former prime ministers, Palestinian peace activists to professors who run critical policy research centers. Students visit historically and culturally significant sites throughout Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, engage in roundtable discussions at the Knesset with Israeli political leaders across the spectrum, and hear directly from Palestinian perspectives.