University of Pennsylvania Alumni in Israel
About - The Penn Club of Israel
The Penn Club of Israel is a community of alumni, faculty and students from the University of Pennsylvania who live in, research or care about Israel. The Club's core membership are the 500 alumni living in Israel who conduct social, business and recreational activities throughout the country. The club also facilitates networking with Penn Alumni abroad and other Ivy League Clubs in Israel.
We are a demographically and geographically diverse group. Our members have attended Penn during the past 70 years in each of the undergraduate and graduate schools. About 125 of our members live in the Jerusalem area and 200+ live in and around Tel Aviv. The rest are evenly split in the North and the South. We sincerely invite all alumni, faculty and students visiting Israel to meet with us while here.
Events - The Penn Club of Israel conducts annual events including celebrating Ben Frankin’s birthday on or around January 17th; The Penn Israel Regatta – Ivy League Yacht Race off the coast of Herzelia involving other Ivy League schools in June; a Fourth of July beach party/picnic and an annual gala dinner run by the Wharton Club in December. Throughout the year we also have social mixers with young alumni from other Ivy Israel Clubs; host visiting professors for dinner; and enjoy cultural and recreational programs with spouses and entire families. To see our event calendar, please click here.
Penn-Owned Businesses sponsor this site: Penn-owned businesses throughout the country support the Club and this site through paid advertising in cash and kind. Advertising on the site and in our communications cost NIS 1,000 ($250) for two years of exposure. Advertisers are encouraged to give a 10% discount to Penn Alumni. The board actively advances the interests of advertisers who contribute to the club. To see links to all of our current sponsors, please click here.
The Penn-Israel Club House is located in a section of the Columbus Restaurant (Kosher) in Herzelia Pituach where we have adorned the walls with Penn memorabilia. The Club House has a TGI Friday’s like atmosphere with indoor and outdoor dinning and a bar where we drink a highball to Penn. All Penn alumni in Israel receive a VIP card to the club with discounts on meals and drinks.
Events - The Penn Club of Israel conducts annual events including celebrating Ben Frankin’s birthday on or around January 17th; The Penn Israel Regatta – Ivy League Yacht Race off the coast of Herzelia involving other Ivy League schools in June; a Fourth of July beach party/picnic and an annual gala dinner run by the Wharton Club in December. Throughout the year we also have social mixers with young alumni from other Ivy Israel Clubs; host visiting professors for dinner; and enjoy cultural and recreational programs with spouses and entire families. To see our event calendar, please click here.
Penn-Owned Businesses sponsor this site: Penn-owned businesses throughout the country support the Club and this site through paid advertising in cash and kind. Advertising on the site and in our communications cost NIS 1,000 ($250) for two years of exposure. Advertisers are encouraged to give a 10% discount to Penn Alumni. The board actively advances the interests of advertisers who contribute to the club. To see links to all of our current sponsors, please click here.
The Penn-Israel Club House is located in a section of the Columbus Restaurant (Kosher) in Herzelia Pituach where we have adorned the walls with Penn memorabilia. The Club House has a TGI Friday’s like atmosphere with indoor and outdoor dinning and a bar where we drink a highball to Penn. All Penn alumni in Israel receive a VIP card to the club with discounts on meals and drinks.
Penn Jewish Alumni Network --Penn Jewish Alumni are developing a worldwide network and sense of community among the University of Pennsylvania's 40,000 Jewish alumni. The network will: support peer-to-peer alumni social and professional interests; strengthen Jewish aspects of life at Penn and fields of study at the University; serve to facilitate Jewish philanthropic and Israel related activities which Penn Alumini direclty manage. This platforms serves to accumulate and associate Penn Jewish Alumni in order to survey interests and to conceptualize a multi-year plan for the organization. Please ask other alumni to join this group.
Non-Israel-based Alumni are welcome to participate in the philanthropic undertakings of the Club and of'course anyone traveling to Israel: alumni, faculty and students - including Penn birthright participants; one-year programs at Israeli univerisities and pre-matriculated Yeshiva students - should contact the Meet and Greet group and the City chapters where they are studying\staying. Alumni with business interests in Israel can contact
Board, Committees & Groups – Membership in the Penn Club of Israel is by virtue of having a degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Our organization is structured around functional committees each led by a chair-person who is generally also a member of the executive board. . All members are encouraged to participate on committees\groups which include: Business; Philanthropy; Meet and Greet; Mentoring Olim (New Immigrants); Communications; Young Alumni and Events.
Board, Committees & Groups – Membership in the Penn Club of Israel is by virtue of having a degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Our organization is structured around functional committees each led by a chair-person who is generally also a member of the executive board. . All members are encouraged to participate on committees\groups which include: Business; Philanthropy; Meet and Greet; Mentoring Olim (New Immigrants); Communications; Young Alumni and Events.
Regional Chapters - We have regional chapters in: Jerusalem; Haifa and the North and Beer Sheva and the South. There is also an independent Wharton-Penn Club of Israel with whom all activities are combined.
For a more detailed description of the committees and to contact chair-persons please look at the groups section of the site.
To receive emails and invitations to events: All notices about The Penn Club of Israel are sent through the University list server to receive infomation about the Penn Club of Israel you must request being put on the listserver.
Ivy Israel -- The Association Ivy League Alumni Groups in Israel coordinates joint events involving all the Ivy League clubs in Israel. The Penn Club of Israel C0-foundeed and is active in the leadership of Ivy Israel. For peer-to-peer business networking amongst Penn Alumni and between Penn and other Ivy Alumni associated with Israel. Ivy League Alumni Israel Business Networking Group - LinkedIn Group
To receive email updates and invitations to events you must sign-up on the university listserver: www.alumni.upenn.edu/club/israellistserv.html
Please take the a minute to sign up otherwise we simple can’t inform you of goings-on in Israel
Please look through the site to appreciate all the club benefits and also consider contributions you might make to the Club.
The Board of The Penn Club of Israel
The Board of The Penn Club of Israel
Last updated by Dov Hoch Apr. 21, 2009.
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