Green Course Chapter Directors hold the most important organizational function —they activate our volunteers. They are the up-and-coming leaders of tomorrow. They have been chosen as the most prestigious leaders from our volunteers.
Our Chapter Directors for the 2006-07 year:
Yakov Mashiach “Because we have one world”
Yakov double majors in business and public-policy at Sapir College. Yakov intends to focus on broadening the awareness of the environment on the local level.
Mazzi Hod “Green Course for a pink future”
Mazzi studies business and accounting at Rishon Letzion. She is interested in recruiting young volunteers, but her main goal this year is to fight consumer culture and promote the green way.
Idan Canonitch is a music and language major at the Haifa University. He asks “to bring the green agenda” forward. Idan wants to change the actions and thoughts of humanity, to “hug trees, not chimneys.”
Shelly Bloomenfell “If not me, then who?”
Shelly majors in special education for younger children at the Levinsky School in Ramat Aviv. She wants to start an environmental and social revolution that will provide a better future. She says that “children are our future and we are the present and that it is our responsibility to change the world!”
Orel Nahaman is biology major in his second year at Oranim School. He intends to increase green activism by following the one basic rule of butterfly swimming: “to start strong and slowly get even stronger.”
Ofer Rosenstein “Activism is the key to happiness”
Ofer studies geography and psychology at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva. He aims to keep activism at its highest and help decrease the air-pollution put-out from the factories in Ramat Hovav.
Zina Nasar “Green environment = Garden of Eden”
Zina majors in education at the Western Galil College. She believes that there is a dire need to protect the environment in the north. Zina wants to pay particular attention to campus greening in order to influence others.
Tom Wiseman “To move mountains”
Tom is majoring in geography at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. This year he wants to draft “beautiful volunteers” so that he may “give them the right tools to move mountains and work cooperatively with other related organizations in Jerusalem.”
Ella Yakov “Green Course will start a revolution”
Ella majors in environmental studies at Achva College. Her intention is to tackle the growing air-pollution problem and spread environmental law. She likes community work and believes that “awareness equals revolution.”
Dani Mindrol is a “bio-info-mathematics” major at Ben Gurion University. He, along with Offer Rosenstein, coordinates activities for volunteers on campus. He wants “to rid the stigma of tree-hugging” and continue the campus recycling project. His motto: “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”
Irena Elschitz “Together we can make a change”
Irena double majors in animal sciences and environmental studies at Rechovot Agricultural School. This year she intends to increase volunteer activity, primarily participation in environmental demonstrations. She also wants to teach students about environmental distress so that “together we all will act.”
Gilad Argeman study’s Israeli culture and education at Bet-Berel . He plans on strengthening the campus organization and developing the organic garden. Student awareness is important because “only dead dish swim up-stream.”
Karni Fox “No to a Jerusalem paved in asphalt!”
Karni studies geography and environmental studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her focus is on open areas and the continuation of the Safdi Plan. She believes that “everything in the present affects the future.”
Shani Itach “Green in the Red Sea”
Shani is a hotel management and tourism major at the Eilat campus of Ben Gurion University. Shani stands in front of a huge challenge in constructing the first Green Course program at her college and recruiting volunteers. She believes her first step is to create a green social structure on campus.
Ofer Arnon is an environmental science student in his second year as a campus coordinator at Tel-Hai College. He wants the organization to work off-campus and hold environmental projects that focus on river clean-up and building parks. Ofer nevertheless believes that action starts on campus: “first we take Manhattan, then Berlin.”
Vardit Shir “Everything depends on action”
Vardit studies literature and philosophy at Bar-Illan. She holds all environmental subjects as intertwined and believes that to heighten public awareness one can start on campus.
Yaniv Schteimetz “On the Kinneret”
Yaniv is a humanities and communications student at the Kinneret College in the Yarden Valley. Yaniv hopes to enlarge his campus organization despite the smaller student population of his university. He plans on continuing with current river and Galilee projects and believes that one must act for oneself.
Etan Borecat “Practice what you preach”
Etan is a master’s student in engineering at the Haifa Technion. During the semester Etan strives to incorporate small projects that involve engineering with the environment. He feels that the environmental subject is not looked upon seriously enough.
Shacaf Margalit “Life is what you make of it”
Shacaf studies at the Tel Aviv University. She is a history and geography major who believes that the environment is most important. She hopes to generate green-campus awareness by sponsoring public transportation and denouncing air-pollution.
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