Jeff Seidel – Director
Ezra Amichai -Office Administrator
Daniella Warren – Financial and Office Administrator
Hours 9am-5pm
Cell 052 286-7795
WhatsApp +972 52-286-7795
Office 02-628-2634
Israel Fax# 02-628-3629
Email jseidel@jeffseidel.com
Address 8 Beit El St. Old City Jerusalem, Israel
Max Steinberg
Israel Public Diplomacy Program
Students who attend weekly will receive a stipend!
Programs for Students at Hebrew University
At our Jeff Seidel Centers serving Hebrew University Students, we are BUSY! We have a daily stream of students visiting our offices, using our laundromat, connecting with friends, joining one of our many programs, or accessing a prayer book. Here are some of the programs that we offer:
The Old City Student Center is the main office and “springboard” for the JSIC’s diversified activities throughout the country. In order to meet the needs of JSIC’s rapid expansion, construction has begun on a new building in Jerusalem, which will serve as a nucleus for the varied activities.
Students and Tourists seeking to expand their studies are referred to various yeshivas and programs, according to the individual’s needs and desires.
Activities include in-service counseling, yeshiva classes, regular lectures on topics like Jewish Philosophy or Halacha followed by a basketball or football game or even a movie, tours of the western wall tunnels and Shabbat Hospitality. Students are welcome to make themselves at home in the spacious lounge or browse in the Center’s library which includes video and audio tapes on a variety of Jewish Topics.
Meet Our Staff
Batsheva Adamit
DIRECTOR OF EVENTS/WOMEN’S PROGRAMMING
Born and raised in South Florida, Batsheva made Aliya in 2003 and currently lives with her husband and 3 children in Israel.
She received her BA from Bar Ilan University in Bible Studies and Jewish History and is currently working on her MA in Bible Studies. Batsheva has worked for Jeff Seidel since 2011, where she began running the Beersheva branch but has since transferred over to Jeff’s Hebrew University student center where she runs events for the international students. She admires the work that Jeff Seidel has been doing for many decades and feels grateful to be a part of such an incredible program.
Ezra Amichai
Office Administrator
Ezra Amichai is a native New Yorker who moved to Israel in 2000. A graduate of the Yeshivat Bat Ayin semicha program, he runs the Old City office of the Jeff Seidel Student Information Centers, and is also the spiritual guide on the Jeff Seidel Israel Shabbatons and the annual Mission to Poland. He is also the director of the Jerusalem Soul Center, an organization serving young new olim, lone soldiers, and students living in Israel. He lives in Tekoa, Gush Etzion with his wife Malka Chana and their four wonderful children.
Ezra Amichai
Office Administrator
Ezra Amichai is a native New Yorker who moved to Israel in 2000. A graduate of the Yeshivat Bat Ayin semicha program, he runs the Old City office of the Jeff Seidel Student Information Centers, and is also the spiritual guide on the Jeff Seidel Israel Shabbatons and the annual Mission to Poland. He is also the director of the Jerusalem Soul Center, an organization serving young new olim, lone soldiers, and students living in Israel. He lives in Tekoa, Gush Etzion with his wife Malka Chana and their four wonderful children.
Student Center Services
- Laundry Service
- Free Wifi
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Batsheva Adamit
DIRECTOR OF EVENTS/WOMEN’S PROGRAMMING
Ezra Amichai
Office Administrator
Jeff Seidel
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Contact Us
Batsheva Adamit
DIRECTOR OF EVENTS/WOMEN’S PROGRAMMING
Ezra Amichai
Office Administrator
Jeff Seidel
George Deek is an Arab-Israeli diplomat. In 2018, Deek was appointed Israeli ambassador to Azerbaijan. He is the first Israeli Arab Christian to become an ambassador. Deek grew up in an Eastern Orthodox Christian family in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa, in a building where the other tenants included Muslims, Catholics, Jews and a Catholic priest of Jewish ancestry.[2][3] His father, who worked as a tax advisor,[3] was one of the leaders of the Christian community in Jaffa who served as chairman of the Orthodox Association, and was considered a well-known and popular figure in the city until in 2015 a square was inaugurated in his memory in Jaffa in the presence of Mayor Ron Huldai.[4] According to Deek, his grandparents fled to Lebanon for safety when the 1947–1949 Palestine war, having been told that the Jews would slaughter them if they remained in their homes, but expecting to return home once Arab armies defeated the Jews.[3] According to Deek, when the war ended, his grandparents felt that they had been “deceived”, and decided to return illegally to their home in Jaffa rather than remaining in Lebanon as refugees. Since reentering the country was illegal, Deek’s grandfather, an electrician, was arrested and jailed.
