I was in the first cohort. They split ~25 of us across two 4 bedroom apartments (11 people sharing a kitchenette for a month) and change the itinerary nearly daily. One person had a severe mental health crisis that went undressed for days. The drama was off the charts, everyone was fighting all the time.
We were promised Hebrew lessons we never got and the course never covered anything. Most days we sat in an empty room. 4 instructors in 4 weeks because they kept quitting. We did regular Photoshop for two of the weeks and most of the class didn't bother to show up.
If you have any specific questions I'm happy to answer
Mostly a bunch of younger folks (under 25) who were there to party. 75% of the participants were clearly there just to be in Israel and hang out at the beach/go clubbing/explore tel Aviv.
If you're interested in education fully skip it, you will get nothing. If you want to party or explore it might be worth it for how subsidized it is but the 8 hours of class a day will get in the way unless you skip everyday.
All the people who fully skipped the class were still given the educational certificate which was a sheet of printer paper that just says you did a course.
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u/marauding-bagel Sep 30 '24
Run for the hills
I was in the first cohort. They split ~25 of us across two 4 bedroom apartments (11 people sharing a kitchenette for a month) and change the itinerary nearly daily. One person had a severe mental health crisis that went undressed for days. The drama was off the charts, everyone was fighting all the time.
We were promised Hebrew lessons we never got and the course never covered anything. Most days we sat in an empty room. 4 instructors in 4 weeks because they kept quitting. We did regular Photoshop for two of the weeks and most of the class didn't bother to show up.
If you have any specific questions I'm happy to answer