Students Supporting Israel

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Students Supporting Israel
Formation2012
FoundersIlan Sinelnikov (President of the Organization)

Valeria Chazin (Chairwoman, Board of Directors)

Naor Bitton (Senior Advisor, Board of Directors)
Type501(c)(3) non-profit
FocusPro Israel Campus Activity
Headquarters Minneapolis, MN
Leaders
Valeria Chazin, Ilan Sinelnikov & Naor Bitton
Website http://www.ssimovement.org/

Students Supporting Israel (also known as SSI) is a Zionist international student activist movement that supports Israel as a Jewish and democratic nation-state. As of April 2015, SSI has more than 45 chapters across campuses in the United States, Canada and Austria. [1] SSI was founded in 2012 in Minnesota and its national offices are in Minneapolis. The founders of the organizations are Ilan Sinelnikov, Valeria Chazin and Naor Bitton.

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Awards and achievements

In 2015, SSI won the Outstanding Outreach and Pro Israel Activism Award by Israel’s Consulate to the Midwest. [4] In 2014 it won the CAMERA David Bar Illan award, as well as the Zionist Organization of America Annual Award. [5] As a student group, it has demonstrated influence in student government bodies on several occasions including the Israeli Academic Cooperation position statement at the University of Minnesota, which paved the way for a similar Israeli Support Resolution at the University of Georgia followed shortly by Texas A&M University, [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

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