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Pre-Ulpan (Mandatory to those with a low level of Hebrew, available in the summer session only) A month and a half of extensive Hebrew Ulpan studies in the Garin Tzabar Village in Ra'anana. The participants come from all around the world, and are accompanied by social counselors. In the afternoons, there are social activities and volunteering.
An ulpan (Hebrew: אולפן), plural ulpanim, is an institute or school for the intensive study of Hebrew. Ulpan is a Hebrew word meaning "studio", "teaching", or "instruction". The ulpan is designed to teach adult immigrants to Israel the basic language skills of conversation, writing, and comprehension.
Ra'anana (Hebrew: רַעֲנָנָּה, lit."Fresh") is an affluent city in the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel.It was founded in 1922 as an American-Jewish settlement, c.1 km south of the village of Tabsur, where an important World War I battle had taken place four years previously.
Ulpan Etzion, Israel's first Hebrew-language school, was established in Baka in 1949. The ulpan , directed by Mordechai Kamerat, was used as a model for Hebrew language teaching all over Israel. In 2008, the school vacated its college-style dormitories, communal rooms and gardens after the lease expired with the Carmelite Church that owned the ...
Between 1948 and 1952, about 700,000 immigrants arrived in the new state. The Jewish Agency helped these immigrants acclimate to Israel and begin to build new lives. It established schools to teach them Hebrew, beginning with Ulpan Etzion in 1949. [66] (The first student to register for Ulpan Etzion was Ephraim Kishon. [67]) It also provided ...
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Pardes was originally housed next to Ulpan Etzion in Baka and then moved downtown to Shivtei Yisrael Street. When the opportunity arose, a facility was rented on Pierre Koenig Street in Talpiot. Pardes eventually purchased that space, renovated it, and then leased additional space.
The name Ulpana was used among the Jewish commentaries on the Bible in the language Aramaic and is cited for example in Targum Onkelos (Onkelos translation) to the Bible parashah “Ki Tissa”, where he translates the verse "And he called it a tent of Meeting" (Book of Exodus 33:7) - "And he called it an Ulpana house", because in this tent the Torah study and its teaching took place, or in ...