National Union of Israeli Students

The Student Union is determined to play a decisive role in Israeli Society and it has placed social impact on a national level as an organizational priority.

Its core goal is to identify methods, activate projects and implement recommendations advancing the integration of students from minority communities into the academy.

The department strives to lighten the student economic burden of academic studies by granting scholarship in exchange for their activity in a community involvement framework.

The department works to advance policy and legislation for the improvement of the status of youth and students in Israel, by establishing a body that can derive research and thought.

Works to explain and reflect the Union’s policy and its decision making as well as promote its goals and core projects in various fields to the Student Associations.

Additionally, the department operates in the new media channels among them: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in order to strengthen the direct and unhindered connection between the students in Israel and the world.

The Union attracted international attention in 2010 when its president, Boaz Torporovsky, announced a plan to send a Kurdish Freedom Flotilla "to deliver much-needed humanitarian assistance to the Kurds of Turkey.