Israeli Trailblazers Show
Walk away from every episode smarter, more amazed, and seeing the world a little differently. Here's the secret: strangers you've never met are making your life easier, safer and healthier right now — and you're about to meet them. Wildfires stopped before the fire trucks leave the station. Cancer caught in five minutes, from your couch. Seizures predicted hours ahead. All from a country the size of New Jersey — the one the world can't stop arguing about. Elon Musk calls Israel #1 in innovation per capita. Host Jennifer Weissmann introduces you to the innovators, researchers, and thinkers behind the breakthroughs you rely on every single day.
Israeli Trailblazers Show
Skip US College Debt: Study in Israel for $10K a Year | Campus Israel with Fleur Hassan-Nahoum
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American college costs have hit a breaking point. Four years at a private university can run a family $90,000 a year — with no job guarantee when the diploma is in hand. Now add rising concerns about campus antisemitism, and more families are asking a simple question: is there a better path? This episode looks at one answer. A new program called Campus Israel offers full degrees taught in English for roughly $10,000 a year, built around career outcomes and a problem-solving approach designed to give graduates a real edge in the job market. The pitch: cross a debt-free finish line and step into a pipeline that feeds global companies. Fleur Hassan-Nahoum joins us to explain how Campus Israel actually works — who it's for, what students get, and how the costs break down. We also take an honest look at the harder question: is studying in Israel a realistic alternative for American families, or is it too good to be true? If you're a parent staring down tuition bills, a high schooler weighing your options, or anyone tired of the student debt trap, this conversation is worth your time.
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JENNIFER
I heard you're starting something called Campus Israel. What is it, and why is it important?
FLEUR:
So, you know, when Jews first came to America and they weren't allowed to work in the big banks, what did the Jews do? What's Goldman Sachs if not a Jewish bank- Right ... investment bank that was opened because the Jews weren't allowed. It was very WASPy and nobody wanted Jews in their employment. So what did Jews do? When we are pushed out of somewhere, when we are bullied out of somewhere, when it is unsafe for us to be somewhere, what do we do? We build it bigger and better. That's what we do. So at the moment, the most hostile environment for Jewish young people are college campuses. Now, we have two options. We can continue to fight antisemitism on campus, and I think we should, but to me, that's defense. What's offense? What is our answer to Jews not being allowed into banks? Campuses. Build your own. Yes, but we already have them built, and they're in Israel. And so I want American Jewish kids to look at Israel as a potential destination for doing their college degrees in English, not just because we are the leaders of these technologies, but these technologies, many of them start in college because students go in with a problem-solving mindset. So what I'm saying is why are you paying $90,000 a year to be abused and bullied when you can pay $10,000 a year, study amongst your people, not suffer any antisemitism, and study in a way that gives you an edge over every one of your peers in America because of the atmosphere and the energy for problem-solving and innovation in the State of Israel? So Campus Israel champions and facilitates college in Israel in English.
JENNIFER
Amazing. Amazing. Is that being rolled out to high schools in America yet?
FLEUR
It is. Absolutely. We're starting. This fall, our rollout, at the moment we're building a top of the range, we're building a top of the range platform where the kids will be able to have conversations about their careers and see what degree is the best for them, where they'll be able to talk to people who've done these degrees, where they'll be able to pick what internships they want. We're going to create a whole mechanism for career success just for coming to study in Israel. I love it because as a mom who sends her kid to a private US school- When they get out, it is still very hard to find a job. And if that's not one of the reasons to go to a great school and get a great education, the end of a rainbow should be an employment in your- Yes field of study. Yes.
JENNIFER
Campus Israel, not only do they have a world-class education, but they actually have a position at the end. Yes. A job to go to, whether it's in Israel or maybe back in America. Yes. It's absolutely amazing.
