Apathy within the Jewish people is canceling the Jewish identity. This is an existential danger in the Diaspora. Domestically, blurring the identity can strengthen the Jewish identity retroactively (for instance, the activities of IDF soldiers who accompany Jews from the Diaspora to Israel with the "Birthright" project.")

I will explain what Expectation-ism means: when a man leaves his home, we tell him goodbye. The last one takes upon himself responsibilities, arrives at a new place with another outfit, with different sets of responsibilities and commitments, song, experience, and learning, and he leaves that place full of experiences. This is a meaningful journey that has the pattern of moving from one place to another, with content that did not before exist for that man. This is what is called Aliya, or pilgrimage.

This is both an old and a new concept. Although this is a rejuvenated institution, if it is experienced properly. If we can not make the experience to part of the new Jewish experience, than we haven't accomplished a thing. We must change the point of origin and the destination, and so since the beginning pilgrimages have been the mass-movement of a handful of Jews. The uniqueness of our phenomena is that it can be the basis for prominence.

We must develop this phenomenon like a virus so that who ever has traveled here will be infected and then pass it onward. The more "infected," people who had a change occur in them, the experience will become a conscientious commitment. Afterwards, it will be expressed in life and in reality. This is educational engineering which is calculated and which includes a personal encounter. The power of this process must be meaningful two both sides. The society in Israel must know that from the encounters in "Birthright" it gets a number of missing elements in its life. We are a democracy on the defense. We lack the understanding that a minority does not have to be a comparative minority. We are certain that the minority is the enemy. In "Birthright" we encounter openness and pluralism. A handful of individuals come and radiate different patterns of life. If this can be learned, we are benefited. The youth of Israel will think differently about their futures.