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The United Jewish Israel Appeal's work with Jewish day schools in the United Kingdom: Israel education, school partnerships in the Galilee, visiting Israeli teenagers and inspection funding

UJIA and Jewish schools covers the work of the United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIA) with Jewish day schools in the United Kingdom. UJIA is registered charity 1060078 and company 03295115. Its Charity Commission entry says: "Our main objectives are to invest in young people and education in Israel and the UK Jewish Community, and the connection between the two communities. We do this by raising funds and spending them as grants or direct intervention in projects focused on youth and education in the UK Jewish community and in Israel, primarily in the Galil region in the North of the country."[1]

A UJIA entry in the directory of Partnerships for Jewish Schools (PaJeS) says that "In schools UJIA works in both Jewish and mainstream schools running, managing and financially supporting a range of programmes that brings informal education on Jewish identity, Israel and hadracha into the normal school day".[2] In Jewish day schools this has included:

  • co-funding the Pikuach inspection service with the Board of Deputies of British Jews;
  • school-to-school partnerships with schools in the Galilee under its Living Bridge programme;
  • visits by Israeli teenagers through the Magic Moments programme;
  • Israel-education days and resources;
  • Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut programming.[3][4][5][6][7]

UJIA's programme for Jewish pupils in non-Jewish secondary schools is a separate subject, covered at Jewish Activities in Mainstream Schools (JAMS).

The examples below are taken from individual sources. They are not a complete list of UJIA's contacts with Jewish schools.

UJIA's description of its schools work

The PaJeS directory entry describes a "UJIA Informal Education Department" that "works across the community supporting Hadracha and Israel education in schools, youth movements and with students and young adults". It says that "UJIA provides Israel education within the Jewish secondary schools for students in Year 9 upwards to engage them in the country's people, history, culture, society and politics", and that "UJIA's commitment to bringing Israel engagement into school life is best showcased through Israel: Get Connected". It also describes "UR UNI LIFE", a campus-preparation programme for sixth-formers delivered with the Union of Jewish Students.[2]

The Charity Commission lists UJIA's working names as "Jewish Life", "The Heart of Jewish Life" and "UJIA", and its previous name as "Joint Jewish Charitable Trust". It says the charity's "Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making", in England and Wales and in Israel. For the year to 30 September 2025 it reported income of £12,531,000 and spending of £10,759,000.[1]

UJIA's main work with young people outside school is through the youth movements. Its website says it works "through developing a thriving informal Jewish education sector with the Youth Movements and the Union of Jewish Students", and that it sends young people to Israel on "rite of passage programmes, such as Israel Tour, Gap Years and Birthright Israel".[8] In June 2025 UJIA said that "UJIA Israel Experience together with the Jewish Agency for Israel, participating youth movements, and ground providers in Israel" would take 800 teenagers to Israel that summer.[9] That work is covered at Israel Tour and on the youth-movement pages, not here.

Pikuach

Pikuach, the inspection service for Jewish education in Jewish schools, was set up in 1996. In a 2012 review, Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks wrote that it "was established at the initiative of the Board of Deputies and its Education Officer Laurie Rosenberg together with the UJIA in 1996". A joint message from the president of the Board of Deputies, Vivian Wineman, and the chairman of UJIA, Mick Davis, described it as "funded jointly by the Board of Deputies and UJIA".[3]

The review gave more detail on UJIA's role:

  • Pikuach was run by "a one-day a week co-ordinator and one-day a week administrator based at the Board of Deputies office ... together with a professional educator at the UJIA". Its advisory board was "overseen by lay leaders from both the Board of Deputies and UJIA".
  • "Pikuach reports to the UJIA Education, Leadership and Planning lay leadership group."
  • Pikuach was "jointly funded by the Board of Deputies and by UJIA". The Department for Education also gave a grant for each inspection.
  • A proposal "to extend the work of the School Kodesh Partners in order to give schools greater support in Jewish education" had "been taken forward by UJIA, ready to begin during the academic year 2011-12".[3]

An earlier review of inspections from 2003 to 2007, also by Miller, said that Pikuach was "supported financially by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and the United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIA)". It also referred to "The introduction, in 2007, of the UJIA sponsored Jewish studies curriculum project in some schools".[10]

UJIA's own annual reports record the end of its funding. Its report for the year ended 30 September 2010 says: "UJIA continues to take a lead role in Pikuach, the inspection service for Jewish schools, and we are involved in helping Jewish schools monitor and evaluate the quality of their own Jewish programmes through our School Kodesh Improvement Partners Programme."[11] The 2013 report describes Pikuach as "jointly run by UJIA and the Board of Deputies of British Jews" and says: "This is the final year in which UJIA will contribute financially to the service and it will then be fully funded by the Board of Deputies of British Jews; UJIA will continue to provide professional direction and support during 2013-14."[12] The 2014 report says: "In 2013-14, UJIA no longer funded Pikuach but was commissioned by the Board of Deputies to review this agency, which has led to changes in Pikuach's operation and governance."[13]

Living Bridge and school-to-school partnerships

UJIA's Living Bridge programme pairs UK Jewish schools with schools in the Galilee, the area of northern Israel where UJIA concentrates its spending in Israel.[1][4]

Clore Tikva and the Kerner School, Me'ona

Clore Tikva School in Redbridge describes "a long established successful partnership with the Kerner School, Meona in the Galil region in the North of Israel". It says: "The Partnership is a major element of the UJIA's "Living Bridge Project"; a project that links Jewish schools in the UK and Israel." The school says families from the two schools have taken "holidays together", and it credits "the on-going commitment of the UJIA, the generosity of Brian Kerner and the enthusiasm of Libby Landau – our indefatigable Ivrit teacher and manager of the project".[4]

UJIA educators' trips and the Schools Partnership Programme

  • 2010. The head of Brodetsky Primary School in Leeds, Jeremy Dunford, went on "a UJIA-organised trip last week for senior Jewish educators" and visited Ben Zvi Primary School in Shlomi. He was "now working to secure a two-way learning partnership with the Hemed Primary School, around 18 miles from Shlomi", with teacher delegations and video-conferencing between pupils.[14]
  • 2012. A "22-strong group of Jewish and non-Jewish teachers from seven Jewish schools in the UK" went on a "UJIA senior educators' mission" from 28 October to 2 November 2012. It included "teaching lessons at partner schools". The teachers came from Brodetsky Primary, Clore Tikva, Clore Shalom, King David in Manchester (The King David High School, Manchester), JCoSS, King David in Liverpool (King David High School) and the Liberal Jewish Synagogue nursery. A Clore Tikva teacher named the Kerner primary school in Meona as the school's partner. A JCoSS teacher named JCoSS's partner as "the Western Galilee Regional secondary school in the northern Kabri town on the Lebanese border". The paper quoted Dr Helena Miller, "director of research and evaluation and Living Bridge programmes at UJIA": "This project makes real people-to-people links."[15]
  • 2015. Twenty-two Israeli teachers "from 11 schools in the Galil in northern Israel" visited the UK "as part of UJIA's Schools Partnership Programme, which is run in partnership with the Jewish Agency". The scheme linked them to 11 UK Jewish schools, "including Brodetsky Primary School in Leeds, King David High School in Liverpool and JCoSS in Barnet". Teachers quoted came from Ort Shlomi High School and the Ulpana Bnei Akiva.[16] The Jewish Agency is the Jewish Agency for Israel.
  • 2019. UJIA's published annual report for 2018/19 said that, as part of the "UJIA School-to-School Partnership programme", Brodetsky Primary School in Leeds "have benefited from an ongoing relationship with the Hemed Primary School in the Galil region of Israel". In June 2019 "a delegation of 6 Israeli children and their parents came to Leeds". It said Brodetsky pupils and their families "enjoyed cultural and fun activities with their Israeli counterparts, learned about life in Israel and built meaningful relationships that will last a lifetime."[17]

Calderwood Lodge, Glasgow

Page 5 of UJIA's 2018/19 annual report, A Lifetime of Connection, describing the Brodetsky–Hemed school-to-school partnership and UJIA funding and youth-worker activity at Calderwood Lodge School, Glasgow.

In September 2018 The Jewish Chronicle reported that "UJIA's Joanna Hyman cites the partnership between Calderwood and an Israeli school and the participation of a dozen Scottish teenagers in Israel tours this year as evidence of the community's Zionist credentials". The same article said a Maccabi summer scheme "was led by volunteers involved by UJIA through its educational activities in Scottish schools".[18] The school is Calderwood Lodge Primary School. In 2013 The Jewish Chronicle described Hyman as "UJIA Scottish programmes director" (UJIA Scotland).[19] The 2018 article does not name the Israeli partner school. The 2018/19 published annual report said: "UJIA provides funding, educational support and regular activities for the pupils at Calderwood Lodge School in Glasgow. Our Glasgow youth worker provided outstanding Israel content for all pupils at the school, and in May 2019, 21 participants travelled to Amsterdam to engage deeply with their Jewish heritage and history."[17]

Magic Moments

Magic Moments is an annual UJIA programme that brings Israeli teenagers from its partnership region in the Galilee to UK communities around Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut. During their stay they visit Jewish schools.

  • 2008. "One-hundred Israeli teenagers from UJIA's partnership region in the Galil" were to be hosted by 14 UK communities. They would "visit schools and community centres to forge ties with their British counterparts". UJIA Magic Moments chairman Sharman Berwald said: "The young ambassadors come with a sense of mission to promote the spirit of Israel."[20]
  • 2010. Sixty teenagers from the Galil came "through the annual Magic Moments Living Bridge programme". Living Bridge co-ordinator Adrienne Cinna said: "Some of the Israelis live literally 100 yards from the border and for them life carries on. It's important to show that to the kids here."[21]
  • 2011. The programme brought "some 60 teenagers from northern Israel". Its leader, Nofar Valal, had taken part in "the pilot trip nine years ago". A 15-year-old participant from Shlomi said the group had visited "schools, synagogues and old age homes to discuss life in Israel", and added: "I wanted to tell my point of view, to show Israel's side."[22]
  • 2013. Fifty young Israelis came. Cinna, by then described as "UJIA's Living Bridge co-ordinator", said their personal stories "about those they know who have been victims of terror do give more meaning to Yom Hazikaron services". JCoSS reported that its 20 Israeli guests brought a "new dimension" to the school's Yom Ha'atzmaut barbecue.[19]
  • 2017. Sacks Morasha Jewish Primary School wrote: "We collaborated with UJIA Magic Moments and had a visit from a number of Israeli teenagers who live in the Northern parts of Israel and shared their experiences of living on the borders."[5]

Israel: Get Connected

Israel: Get Connected is a day of Israel education for Year 12 pupils at Jewish secondary schools.

  • The PaJeS entry describes it as "a new initiative for which UJIA was a leading partner in conceiving, organising and funding". It says the previous year's event had "involved 500 students from seven Jewish secondary schools across London and Essex". The entry is undated.[2]
  • In July 2015 more than 350 sixth-formers attended "the annual Israel: Get Connected conference, organised by the Israeli embassy, the Jewish Agency and UJIA", held at JFS. Pupils came from JFS, King Solomon High School in Redbridge, King David High, Manchester and Yavneh College. Israeli ambassador Daniel Taub told them: "We hope that today will be the start of your journey to get more closely connected with Israel."[6]
  • Immanuel College in Bushey held its own "Israel Get Connected Day", "organised in conjunction with the UJIA", on 10 July 2018. Ambassador Mark Regev spoke, and the Watford Observer reported that the day also covered "key components of Israeli education which may be vital when they leave school if they encounter anti-zionism".[23]
  • An undated Immanuel news item says that "On Tuesday 9th July, Immanuel College, in conjunction with UJIA, held its annual 'Israel- Get Connected Day' for Year 12 students". Regev took questions at that event too. It included a debate between "Rabbi Shaw (Mizrachi), Jake Goldman (New Israel Fund) and Professor David Stone (StandWithUs)".[24]

Other UJIA activity in Jewish schools

Social action and Israel-education resources

  • A Pikuach inspection of Yavneh College in March 2011 reported: "In partnership with the UJIA, the school runs the Yoni Jesner Award which provides approximately 60 pupils with the opportunity to do volunteer work within their local Jewish and non-Jewish communities."[25]
  • In March 2022 Simon Rocker reported on Hamoadon ("the club"), "an informal Israel education kit for key stage two pupils (8 to 11) in Jewish primary schools". Robin Ashleigh, director of UJIA's UK programme, said "young people at a much earlier age are feeling a pressure to represent Israel, to defend Israel, to talk about Israel ... and we want to start that process earlier". UJIA chief executive Mandie Winston said the aim was "to make sure that Israel is on the primary school agenda beyond dressing up in blue and white for Yom Haatzmaut". The materials could be delivered by "the shinshinim, the young Israelis who spend a year of service after school as informal educators abroad". Eighteen schools "from London to Glasgow" had signed up.[26]

Israeli national days

  • For Yom HaZikaron in May 2022, JFS said "every student in school had a Tekes (ceremony)" and that 200 students ran "in collaboration with WZO where each student ran in the memory of a fallen soldier". It thanked "UJIA, JNF, Mizrachi UK and WZO for their partnership in events this week".[27] The other bodies named were JNF UK, Mizrachi UK and the World Zionist Organization.
  • In April 2026 The King David High School, Manchester said: "For Yom Hazikaron, we held an extended assembly led by Mr Sadeh in partnership with UJIA." It described the assembly as an "opportunity to remember the tragic loss of those who gave their lives defending the State of Israel, as well as victims of terror".[7]
  • For Israel's 70th anniversary, King David High School in Liverpool said that Year 8 and 9 pupils had entered "a competition, co-ordinated by UJIA, to design display items that represent Israel's independence". Year 9 pupils had made items "based on Jewish people migrating to Israel during the early years of independence", which "may be sent to Israel to be displayed in museums".[28]
  • King David Primary School, Manchester says that "on Yom Ha'atzmaut we raise money for UJIA".[29]

Evidence from annual reports and accounts

Grants to four secondary schools

Page 8 of UJIA's 2018/19 annual report, claiming its grants ensured "over 5,000 Jewish pupils engaged" with Israel learning at JFS, JCoSS, Yavneh College and King David High School Manchester. Photograph blurred.

UJIA's statutory report for the year ended 30 September 2019 states: "We gave grants for Israel education activities in four secondary schools: JFS, JCoSS and Yavneh College in London; and King David High School in Manchester. Together, they have over 5,000 pupils." This is a statement about the schools' combined pupil population, rather than a count of pupils participating in the funded activities.[30] The schools are JFS, JCoSS, Yavneh College and The King David High School, Manchester.

A brochure-style version of the same year's report, published as A Lifetime of Connection, uses stronger wording: "Our grants to Jewish schools also ensured over 5,000 Jewish pupils engaged with outstanding Israel learning and events at JFS, JCOSS and YAVNEH COLLEGE in London, and KING DAVID HIGH SCHOOL in Manchester." It adds that participants "heard from outstanding speakers, commemorated Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut in meaningful ceremonies, and took part in various fun and educational Israel-themed activities throughout the year."[17] That is a participation or reach claim, rather than a statement about the four schools' combined enrolment.

Page 7 of UJIA's 2018/19 annual report, giving JAMS figures of 36 schools, 5,670 participants, 566 sessions and 95 educational partners.

The same brochure separately describes Jewish Activities in Mainstream Schools (JAMS) as supporting "young leaders at 36 Jewish societies to put on interesting sessions for over 5,000 pupils in London, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow", and gives figures of 36 schools, 5,670 participants, 566 sessions and 95 educational partners. That is a further use of a "5,000" pupil figure, for mainstream schools rather than the four Jewish secondary schools named above.[17]

The accounts also identify grants to the Manchester school in successive years. The figures below retain the accounts' units, £'000; they do not identify the purpose of each individual grant.[30][31][32][33][34]

Grants listed as "King David High School Manchester"
Year ended 30 September Amount (£'000) Source
2016 284 2016 accounts[35]
2018 118 2019 accounts, comparative column[30]
2019 125 2019 accounts[30]
2020 103 2020 accounts; 2021 accounts, comparative column[36][31]
2021 96 2021 accounts[31]
2022 96 2022 accounts[32]
2023 100 2023 accounts[33]
2024 106 2025 accounts, comparative column[34]
2025 101 2025 accounts[34]

The 2017 and 2018 accounts list their largest institutional grants without naming the Manchester school, so no figure is given here for those years. The 2025 accounts caution that the non-emergency figures can include payments encompassing grants, bursaries and subsidies awarded in multiple years and across multiple programme cycles.[34]

Educators, primary-school resources and joint programmes

Page 6 of UJIA's 2018/19 annual report, on shinshinim working in UK primary and secondary schools and the Bookniks tour of four Jewish primary schools. Photograph blurred.
Page 12 of UJIA's 2022 annual report, on its UK grants, including 13 shinshinim allocated to "schools, synagogues and youth movements". Photograph blurred.
  • The 2018/19 brochure says UJIA supported the shinshinim programme in partnership with the Jewish Agency for Israel: "In 2018-19, 12 Shinshinim lived and worked in the UK Jewish community in a variety of settings, including primary and secondary schools, youth organisations and synagogues." They also took part in events such as Israfest at the Zone Youth Centre in Leeds. Separately, it said UJIA provided grants so that shlichim could work with "a variety of youth organisations, schools and synagogues", and that in Manchester and Leeds the shlichim worked alongside UJIA's education department. Those schools are not named.[17]
  • The same brochure describes a February partnership with JW3 on "Bookniks", a children's book festival of Israeli books. It "included a tour of Jewish primary schools with two Israeli children's authors" and "visited four schools over two days, interacting with over 800 young people". The four schools are not named.[17]
  • It says "UJIA provides a grant to Etgar Israel" and that on Yom Ha'atzmaut "over 200 students from 6 schools came together to take part in a series of Israel quizzes and challenges". The six schools are not named.[17]
  • The 2021 report says that, with the Jewish Agency for Israel, UJIA employed two shlichim based in Leeds and Manchester. Their community partners included King David High School in Manchester, King David High School in Liverpool and Leeds Jewish Free School. In Scotland its youth worker collaborated with Calderwood Lodge Primary School and Giffnock Synagogue. It also reported support for 12 shinshinim bringing Israel education into primary and secondary schools, youth organisations and synagogues.[37]
  • The 2022 report says that UJIA supplied seven editions of HaMoadon during 2021–22, beginning with ten primary schools and reaching 18 by year-end. It supported 13 shinshinim through its Jewish Agency grant and, separately, directly funded shinshinim in eight schools in London, Manchester and Leeds. Those eight schools are not named.[32] A brochure-style 2022 annual report published on Issuu repeats the HaMoadon figures ("starting out with 10 primary schools and growing our reach to 18 schools across the country by the end of the year") and says a grant provided 13 shinshinim based in London and Manchester, each allocated to "schools, synagogues and youth movements". It does not name those schools, and it does not name JFS, JCoSS, Yavneh College or King David High School Manchester.[38]
  • The 2023 report describes "Israel75: Building Artistic Connections", run with PaJeS and WIZO. More than 2,500 students from 18 schools in four countries responded artistically to historical and contemporary Israeli artefacts. Their work was exhibited at JW3 in London and the Ben Gurion Heritage Centre in Israel. The report gives no UK-only school or pupil subtotal.[33]
Page 10 of UJIA's 2022 annual report, on the HaMoadon primary-school resource (10 schools growing to 18) and JAMS (about 500 students). Photograph blurred.

The 2023 report separately says that Jewish Activities in Mainstream Schools (JAMS), serving approximately 500 Jewish pupils in non-Jewish secondary schools, was being transferred to the Union of Jewish Students from September 2023. The 2022 brochure likewise describes JAMS as supporting young leaders "in non-Jewish secondary schools to provide approximately 500 students with Jewish and Israel-related content", and names a pupil at Haberdashers' Boys' School as an example.[38] That is mainstream-school provision, not the Jewish-day-school work described above.[33]

Grants named in the earliest accounts, 1997–1999

UJIA's company, number 03295115, filed its first accounts as the Joint Jewish Charitable Trust. Its notes on "direct charitable expenditure" for 1997 to 1999 name three UK Jewish day schools among the recipients, and also name the Scopus Jewish Educational Trust. The figures below keep the accounts' units, £'000. The accounts do not say which King David school is meant: there are King David schools in both Manchester and Liverpool.[39][40][41]

UK Jewish schools named in UJIA's direct charitable expenditure, 1997–1999 (£'000)
Recipient as named in the accounts 1997 1998 1999
"King David High School" (1997, 1998); "King David Schools" (1999) 20 61 110
King Solomon High School 0 25 23
"Naima Jewish Preparatory School" (Naima Jewish Preparatory School) 0 30 15

Sources: [39][40][41]

The same notes also list grants to Scopus Jewish Educational Trust. Scopus is the Zionist Federation's historic educational charity (registered charity 313154; previous name "The Friends of the Zionist Federation Educational Trust"), not a school. It has been the foundation body for Mathilda Marks-Kennedy Jewish Primary School, Simon Marks Jewish Primary School and Rosh Pinah Jewish Primary School. See Scopus Jewish Educational Trust and Zionist Federation and Jewish schools.

Grants to Scopus Jewish Educational Trust (trust, not a named school) (£'000)
Year ended 31 December Amount Prior-year comparative
1997 336 —
1998 291 336
1999 113 291

Sources: [39][40][41] The line items appear on printed p.7 of the 1997 accounts and printed p.9 of the 1998 and 1999 accounts.

The 1997 accounts also list £118,000 for "Jewish Activities in Mainstream Schools" under renewal programmes, and the 1998 accounts list £5,000 for "Schools J-Link". JAMS is provision for Jewish pupils in non-Jewish schools, and the 1998 accounts do not say what Schools J-Link was.[39][40]

Earlier reports, 2007–2020

UJIA's reports for the years ended 30 September 2007 to 2018, and 2020, are filed with its accounts at Companies House. They give different counts for the school-to-school partnerships from year to year, and the counts are not always on the same basis.

  • 2007. A case study headed "Building links with Israel in the Yavneh School" says: "UJIA Israel Experience is working with the Yavneh College School in North West London preparing their year 9 educational visit which will take place in summer 2009. UJIA is working with the Jewish Studies Department in the two-year run-up to the tour, visiting, providing materials and, with the school, selecting tour leaders." (The school is Yavneh College, which is in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.) The same page reports the launch of the Jewish Curriculum Partnership with the United Synagogue, and refers to "Our support of Pikuach, the inspection service for Jewish Studies".[42]
  • 2008. "On the formal education side, our UJIA Educational Leadership Department work with Jewish Day Schools comprises three strands: curriculum development; teacher training and support; and educational leadership development." UJIA was, "together with the United Synagogue", a partner in the Jewish Curriculum Partnership, and two senior UJIA professionals were seconded to the community's Commission on Jewish Schools, which reported in July 2008. The report says: "UJIA is supporting the Jewish community's most recent and highly innovative school, the Jewish Community Secondary School (JCoSS) which will open its doors in September 2010. UJIA has funded research supporting the ethos statement of this unique school." Its Israel Experience programme was "deepening its work with Jewish day schools that arrange such visits to Israel for 14 year olds".[43]
  • 2009. The Jewish Curriculum Partnership set up a Modern Hebrew strand "offered to all schools", and "The number of school using elements of the curriculum reached thirty-four". UJIA operated the Yoni Jesner Award, which "has expanded to the full year 8 group at the Jews Free School and includes both boys and girls in the Hasmonean High School"; 120 awards were issued at a ceremony in June 2009. A review of school twinning "highlighted the potential to expand twinning to include secondary schools and during the year a connection was made with the new Jewish Cross-Communal School (JCoSS) with a view to it twinning with a high school in the Galil".[44]
  • 2010. Under "Jewish Studies in Jewish Day Schools", UJIA described itself as "a major investor in the quality of Jewish education provided by Jewish schools through investment in curriculum development, teacher training and continuing professional development". Over 30 teachers "from over 23 schools" took part in the Jewish Curriculum Partnership's training. The report says: "We directly support informal education work at King Solomon High School and we are helping JCoSS establish their ethos and direction by supporting staff development there." It adds: "In Manchester we have this year moved to a per capita grant for Jewish schools on condition some money has been held centrally for collaborative work." In Liverpool a UJIA-appointed community co-ordinator ran "a fortnightly lunchtime session with King David High School Seniors". In Glasgow the year saw the launch of "the brand new Calderwood Lodge and UJIA Button Art Project"; children from Calderwood had collected over 30,000 buttons for Holocaust-remembrance artwork.[11]
  • 2011. "UJIA work closely with the local Jewish school, Calderwood Lodge", including a transition course for Year 7 pupils and a Holocaust-education project. In Manchester, "UJIA continues to work collaboratively with our partnership schools"; "King David High School is gradually coming on board", and the schools chose Hebrew reading research as their joint project. In Liverpool, "Beigel Mondays" lunchtime talks were "focussed at King David High School". In Leeds: "We are delighted that Lord Steinberg Hemed School has become the school-2-school partner with Brodetsky Primary School."[45]
  • 2012. UJIA's Israel Experience included "514 participants in four School Tour (460 in 2011)", and £63,000 of its bursaries went to "supporting school participants". The report says that UJIA had "invested about £748,000 in the JCP over the past six years", and that its school partnership programme "reached 16 schools by the end of 2011-12".[46]
  • 2013. Management of the Jewish Curriculum Partnership and of teacher training in Jewish schools had passed to Partnerships for Jewish Schools (PaJeS), within the Jewish Leadership Council. The report says that "the Primary Schools Ivrit (Modern Hebrew) strand involves 29 schools and reaches over 9,000 pupils". It says that UJIA had "had to scale down our support for educational school trips to Israel", and that its partnership programme "reached 16 schools in 2012-13 impacting on approximately 3,000 students", with "22 teachers from 7 UK schools" visiting their partner schools in Israel. A Liverpool Jewish resource centre was "now housed in the new King David School Campus".[12]
  • 2014. UJIA "ran the first ever Jewish Secondary Schools Israel Study Day attended by over 500 Year 12 students from six Jewish schools". Its School Partnerships programme was "working with 10 schools in the Galil and 10 schools in the UK". It gave PaJeS "a grant of £100,000" in 2013–14, "with a final grant of £50,000 next year".[13]
  • 2015. "'Israel: Get Connected 2015' was an exciting one-day Israel education conference for Year 12 students at Jewish schools across the UK bringing together nearly 400 students from six Jewish secondary schools". Bursaries included "£10,000 for Year 9 Jewish School programmes".[47] The Jewish Chronicle gave a figure of more than 350 for the same conference.[6]
  • 2016. The report describes a project "to map current Israel engagement with some form of Israel focused activities in Jewish schools", research data collected "in the seven mainstream Jewish secondary schools in the UK", and preparatory work on "a review of the JFS Kibbutz Lavi Year 9 three month residential programme". It gives "twenty six schools in Israel and the UK" in the School Partnerships programme, and a grant of £284,000 to "King David High School Manchester".[35]
  • 2017. "Our school partnership programme expanded from 11 to 14 UK schools, partnering with 14 schools in the Galil". UJIA's external research included "a study to determine the outcomes and impact of the JFS Year 9 three months educational programme in Israel, a feasibility study for Kantor King Solomon School, the conclusion of the JCoSS first cohort study".[48]
  • 2018. The report lists "Get Connected Sixth Form educational Seminars in six different schools". It says: "Outside of London, we offer core funding to a number of Jewish educational institutions, including King David High School in Manchester and The Zone and Brodetsky Primary School in Leeds." It adds: "We also began giving grants to two Jewish secondary schools – JCoSS and JFS – to support their informal Israel education." It also refers to "The newly-opened site for Calderwood Lodge School".[49]
  • 2020. UJIA's UK grants went to "four of the Jewish secondary schools", among others. It agreed "to fund a two-year project with PaJeS to design an entirely new curriculum to teach year 9s in Jewish schools about Israel". Its Ashdown Fund supports an "annual overnight Heads' Seminar", held in November 2020 "for 36 heads from a wide range of schools". Its Mamlock House Fund "supports one primary and one secondary school" in Manchester "with bursaries for trips to Israel and Poland respectively". An online "mifgash" project "paired Yavneh College in Hertfordshire with the Carmiel Children's Village in the Galil in Israel".[36]

The schools named are King Solomon High School, JCoSS, JFS, Hasmonean High School, The King David High School, Manchester, King David High School (Liverpool), Calderwood Lodge Primary School, Brodetsky Primary School and Yavneh College. Lord Steinberg Hemed School and the Carmiel Children's Village are in Israel.

Schools named in these sources

UK Jewish schools named in connection with UJIA in the sources on this page
School Contact Year(s)
Brodetsky Primary School (Leeds) UJIA educators' trip; partnership with Hemed Primary School; Schools Partnership Programme; June 2019 pupil and parent visit from Hemed; school-to-school partner Lord Steinberg Hemed School (2011 report); core funding (2018 report) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2018, 2019
Calderwood Lodge Primary School (Glasgow) Partnership with an Israeli school, cited by UJIA Scotland; UJIA funding and regular activities; youth-worker collaboration; Amsterdam trip; Button Art Project; transition course 2010, 2011, 2018, 2019, 2021
Clore Shalom School UJIA senior educators' mission 2012
Clore Tikva School (Redbridge) Living Bridge partnership with the Kerner School, Me'ona; educators' mission 2012, current
Hasmonean High School Yoni Jesner Award 2009
Immanuel College (Bushey) Israel Get Connected Day with UJIA 2018; another, undated
JCoSS (Barnet) Educators' mission; Magic Moments visitors; Schools Partnership Programme; Israel-education grants; staff-development support; first cohort study; grants begun 2017–18; twinning connection with a Galil high school; funded research for its ethos statement 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
JFS Hosted Israel: Get Connected; Israel-education grants; Yom HaZikaron partners; research on its Year 9 Israel programme; grants begun 2017–18; Yoni Jesner Award for the full Year 8 2009, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022
King David High School (Liverpool) Educators' mission; Schools Partnership Programme; Israel 70 competition; lunchtime speaker sessions and "Beigel Mondays" 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2018
King David Primary School, Manchester Yom Ha'atzmaut fundraising for UJIA current
Naima Jewish Preparatory School Grants listed in accounts 1998, 1999
Leeds Jewish Free School Partner of UJIA-supported shlichim 2021
King Solomon High School (Redbridge) Israel: Get Connected; informal-education support; feasibility study for "Kantor King Solomon School"; grants listed in 1998 and 1999 accounts 1998, 1999, 2010, 2015, 2017
Sacks Morasha Jewish Primary School Magic Moments visit 2017
The King David High School, Manchester Educators' mission; Israel: Get Connected; grants; shlichim partnership; Yom HaZikaron assembly with UJIA; Manchester partnership schools; core funding 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2018–2025, 2026
Yavneh College (Borehamwood) Yoni Jesner Award with UJIA; Israel: Get Connected; Israel-education grants; online pairing with the Carmiel Children's Village; UJIA Israel Experience preparation for its Year 9 Israel visit 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, 2020

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See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Charity Commission, United Jewish Israel Appeal – 1060078 (overview, governance, governing document and "what, who, how, where" pages), Register of Charities, accessed 6 November 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Partnerships for Jewish Schools, UJIA Informal Education, associates directory, pajes.org.uk, undated, accessed 6 November 2026.
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  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Clore Tikva School, Israel Partnership, cloretikva.redbridge.sch.uk, accessed 6 November 2026.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Yom HaZikaron, sacksmorasha.org.uk, 1 May 2017, archived by the Wayback Machine on 18 August 2019, accessed 2 November 2026.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Charlotte Oliver, Students strengthen Israeli connection, The Jewish Chronicle, 9 July 2015, accessed 6 November 2026.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 The King David High School, Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut, kdhs.org.uk, 24 April 2026, accessed 6 November 2026.
  8. ↑ United Jewish Israel Appeal, About us, ujia.org, accessed 6 November 2026.
  9. ↑ Michelle Rosenberg, UJIA: Israel tours WILL go ahead, Jewish News, 30 June 2025, accessed 6 November 2026.
  10. ↑ Dr Helena Miller, Accountability through Inspection: Monitoring and Evaluating Jewish Schools, conducted between September 2003 and April 2007. An overview of 25 inspections, London: Pikuach, Board of Deputies of British Jews, 2007, via Institute for Jewish Policy Research archive, accessed 6 November 2026.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 United Jewish Israel Appeal, Report of the trustees and financial statements, year ended 30 September 2010, accounts filed at Companies House on 24 June 2011, pp.9–10, 13, accessed 6 November 2026.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 United Jewish Israel Appeal, Report of the trustees and financial statements, year ended 30 September 2013, accounts filed at Companies House on 23 April 2014, pp.8, 10, accessed 6 November 2026.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 United Jewish Israel Appeal, Report of the trustees and financial statements, year ended 30 September 2014, accounts filed at Companies House on 15 June 2015, pp.9–11, 13, accessed 6 November 2026.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Jonathan Kalmus, Even with shrapnel, Israeli kids are freer, The Jewish Chronicle, 4 November 2010, accessed 6 November 2026.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Sandy Rashty, UJIA helps teachers' links with Israeli counterparts, The Jewish Chronicle, 22 November 2012, accessed 6 November 2026.
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  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 17.6 17.7 United Jewish Israel Appeal, A Lifetime of Connection, UJIA Annual Report 2018/19, pp.5–8, 13, archived by the Wayback Machine on 4 November 2020, accessed 6 November 2026.
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