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Every year, we are thrilled for our Excel Fellows and staff to share a bit about their experiences through our Excel Fellows blog. From sharing that cool new thing they learned at their internship, to divulging the location of the best ice cream shop in Tel Aviv (Golda is the current pick!), our blog is the place to hear all about our fellows’ experiences – both during and after the program.

Summer Internship & Lifelong Friendship hero

Birthright Israel Excel is an opportunity to intern at a leading global business or technology company. It’s mentorship from a senior professional at work. It’s interactive sessions with high profile speakers in the business and political sectors. It’s a lifelong community of like-minded peers, dedicated to becoming business leaders and advocating for the state of Israel. While Excel is all of this and so much more, when I think of Excel I think of Linoy. As a part of the summer experience, each North American Exceller is matched with an Israeli Peer based on professional and personal interests. I was matched with Linoy, an officer in an elite intelligence unit in the IDF and now an Electrical Engineering student at Tel Aviv University.

August 2021 | Casey Borovsky

Stanford University

Paying it Forward Because of Birthright Israel Excel

I had an amazing time in Israel with Excel and felt that I learned a significant amount of skills at my internship that have since helped me advance my career, as well as forged meaningful relationships with people around the world who share many of my passions. In fact, one of the Fellows my year and I became such good friends that we decided to be roommates together in NYC.

October 2021 | Andrew Carlins

Duke University (undergraduate and master’s)

Flying High With Excel

My summer with Excel gave me the opportunity for an internship that was superior to any I could find in the US and to be part of a program that enhanced the summer as a whole.

October 2021 | Peter Cohen

Stanford University (Master’s of Business Administration), Yale University (undergraduate)