International Delegations Archives

International Delegations

The International Delegations Team maintains relationships with youth organizations – especially Scout movements – around the world. In addition, team members stay in contact with youth from the Israeli Boy and Girl Scouts Federation and work to create connections, shared learning, and meaningful joint experiences.

As part of this activity, each summer more than 70 delegations are sent abroad, most of them to European countries. The goal of all delegations is to create an educational, unique, challenging, once-in-a-lifetime Scouting experience. Among the various delegations are instructing delegations to Jewish summer camps, delegations to World Scout Jamborees, and delegations to different Scout centers around the world.

For adult leadership teams, there is also the option to attend global conferences of Scout organizations worldwide, featuring content on a wide range of topics such as diversity and inclusion, sustainability, online safety, marketing and advertising, and more.

Our delegations

On the delegation to Switzerland, I realized how much power we have as Scouts. I discovered that connection is built in the small moments: walking together after an activity, an inside joke, a conversation about the music we love and about life—and suddenly a bond forms that crosses borders and political opinions. I came back with the feeling that when you give young people space, they show you leadership and humanity without making a big deal out of it at all

Shira

9th Grader, Shevet “BaMidbar” – participated in the KISC delegation of 2025

In Sibiu, there was a moment that changed the entire delegation for me. We walked into a meeting with the Jewish community, and instead of an ‘event,’ we received something far more powerful: they told us about what once was a large community, Jewish life, names and families, and how today only a few remain, but with immense respect for what they continue to preserve. It wasn’t a history lesson; it was a lesson of the heart: watching how they light a candle, how they remember names, how they keep going despite everything. And that where I understood why we do those delegations. not only for the youth, but also for this connection, across generations and across places, that keeps living Judaism alive. I left with a sense of responsibility, but also with so much hope

Ido

Coordinator of Delegations to Romania, summers of 2025-26