At the end of last week, in Eilat, the 10th Limmud FSU Israel Festival was held.

This year the Limmud Festival in Odessa, St. Petersburg and Eilat was supported by the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC).

Limmud was founded 11 years ago by Chaim Chesler and Sandra Kahn for Russian-speaking Jewish youth. Traditionally, among the guests of the event, in which 2000 Russian-speaking Israelis took part, there were many notable figures of the Israeli society.

The list of participants included Yair Lapid, the head of the Yosh Atid party, former head of the General Staff Beni Ganz, the head of the Labor Party Avi Gabay, the Minister of the Israeli Government Gila Gamliel, the former minister of the Likud party Gideon Saar, the Chief Rabbi of Israel David Lau, the businessman and philanthropist of the Limmud FSU president Aaron Frenkel, president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) - businessman and philanthropist Mikhail Mirilashvili.

Aaron Frenkel, Chairman of the EAJC Board and President of Limoum FSU said at the opening ceremony: "Limmud's beautiful concept attracts many Jews, in particular here in Israel. The fact that today 2,000 returnees from the former USSR have gathered here is not something taken for granted. The inherent spirit of learning and innovation unites Jews around the world. "

EAJC President Mikhail Mirilashvili said: "Limmud is a great project, in which various people share their unique experience, their unique knowledge, introduce others to their worldview.

For the last ten years, the Russian-speaking Limmud in Israel is rightfully one of the most successful projects in the system of international Limmud. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that Russian-speaking Israelis participate in it. You combine Russian-language culture with the Jewish culture of the communities from which you came. All this, coupled with Israeli culture, gives the event its unusual character. "

Over the years of the project existence, more than 50,000 Russian-speaking Jews took part in the activities of Limous FSU in 9 countries of the world, the average age of which is 30 years.

Geography, as well as the age of participants, continues to expand - this year on Israeli Limmud it will be possible to observe the whole three generations of participants: parents, children and their grandmothers with grandfathers. Each of them will be able to choose a program according to their own taste from a huge list of events of various subjects and build an individual schedule.