Wednesday, November 19

Jerusalem

Morning Attire: Casual (no jackets, no neckties), walking shoes

Afternoon Attire: Semi-formal (jackets, no neckties)

Evening may get cold

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Breakfast

Breakfast at the hotel on an individual basis

9:30 am – 10:00 am

Travel to Beit Hanina

Travel to Beit Hanina neighborhood (East Jerusalem)

10:00 am – 11:00 am

Visit the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Sport Center in East Jerusalem (under construction)

Participants: 

  • President of the Jerusalem Foundation Arik Grebelsky
  • Architect Roi Zinger
  • Director General of the Jerusalem Foundation Imri Ben Ami
  • Architect Nahman Ecstein

11:00 am – 11:30 am

Travel to the Mandel building

11:30 am – 2:00 pm

Mandel School for Educational leadership (MSEL)

11:30 am – 11:40 am // Opening remarks and presentation about MSEL’s recruitment and selection process with MSEL Director Efrat Aran and Head of selection process Tzahi Golan
Classroom 280

11:40 am – 12:00 pm // Short workshop: Philosophical discussion with Jonathan Cohen and Amichai Amit
Split into rooms 280 and 264 + 266

12:00 pm – 12:20 pm // Presentation by MSEL faculty about the program’s two-year curriculum and training process with Efrat Aran and Lisa Levy
Classrooms: 282 + 284

12:20 pm – 12:50 pm // Workshop: “From Vision to Action”
Faculty members: Neta Sher-Hadar, Ayal Shaul, Keren Sagi
Fellows and Graduates: Idit Menashe, Nurit Cohen Yanai, Nadav Charuvi, Yael Boim-Fein, Yuval Nevo, Reda Jaber
Classrooms: 282 + 284

12:50 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch with MSEL faculty, fellows and graduates

Lunch in the cafeteria

Participants: 

Yehuda Ben-Dor, Neta Sher-Hadar, Ayal Shaul, Miriam Szamet, Efrat Aran, Dalit Stauber, Lisa Levy, Micah Sapir, Tali Asher, Yehuda Maimaran, Yael Boim-Fein, Tzuriel Robbins, Idit Menashe, Shir Elkayam-Luzzatto, Yuval Nevo, Nadav Charuvi, Reda Jaber, Miriam Leibowitz Assaraf, Nurit Cohen Yanai, Asaf de Vries, Yafit Babila Shemer, Zohar Dvash, Gili Leibushor

2:15 pm – 2:45 pm

Travel to the new Morton L. Mandel Square in Jerusalem

2:45 pm – 3:30 pm

Morton L. Mandel Square Inauguration Ceremony

2:45 pm – 3:00 pm // Reception

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm // Inauguration of the Square In the presence of Mayor Moshe Lion, faculty, staff and guests.

3:30 pm

Return to the Mandel building

4:15 pm – 6:15 pm

MF Board meeting

6:15 pm – 6:30 pm

Travel to the Tower of David Museum

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Dinner at the Tower of David Museum

7:30 pm – 7:55 pm

AI and Mandel's Programs

Presentation by the Director of the Mandel Unit for Innovation and Digital Learning Dafna Gaber

8:15 pm – 8:45 pm

View of Jerusalem

View of Jerusalem from the lookout at the David Citadel

8:45 pm

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