Havatzalot Program

The selection process includes: The Havatzalot training program is one of the longest and most prestigious in the IDF, and provides the students with the knowledge, intellectual skills and values required to excel in their future positions.

All the terms of service and training content, including tuition fees for the academic degree, are fully funded by the IDF.

It provides students with a broad knowledge base on the history of the Middle East, Arab society and language, and regional and international political systems.

The military training also includes a series of internal courses, during which the program's cadets learn about the army's activity, with an emphasis on Aman and the many disciplines within it.

The intelligence training is multidisciplinary and is intended to provide graduates of the program with knowledge and skills relevant to all the different organizations within Aman.

In order to prepare them for the responsibility of managing important projects and large groups of soldiers during their service - the training also emphasizes the development of the leadership skills.

In this way the trainees gain work experience, under the close supervision of the program's staff which consists of about a dozen officers at the rank of Captain and Major.

During the third year of training, the cadets receive placements in an orderly process, managed by the head of the program, in which the student's preferences are examined, along with his abilities and his suitability for the position (according to the assessment of his commanders).

The graduates' service in the corps includes a major emphasis on transition – gaining experience in a variety of research disciplines, and a broad understanding of the greater intelligence community and its needs.