Goals:

• The participants will get to know Jerusalemite leaders.
• The participants will experience a “tour” of Jerusalem via Google Maps.
• The participants will discuss what is expected of a leader.

The activity order:

1. Introduction – “Did you ever think about the name of your street?”
2. Google Maps Game.
3. Learning and deepening the knowledge about the chosen characters.
4. Discussion.
5. Conclusion.

We will go round and hear from each participant the name of the street that s/he lives on.

The activity leader will choose a few participants and will ask them to explain the name of the street (to the best of the participant’s ability).

The leader will ask, “Did you ever think about the name of your street?”

We will send the participants, via the orange man in Google Maps- to a street named after a character that they will choose and they will need to answer questions by wandering the streets of Jerusalem. The participants will be split into groups and will be asked the questions as a competition between the groups.

Learning and deepening the knowledge about the chosen characters. Split the participants into groups. Each group will learn about one character’s life story and will try to define his “identity card”.

The leader will then discuss with the participants why the characters are outstanding or special to us? Why did they merit to have a street named after them?

According to the characters chosen, discuss what a leader is. 

• What characteristics make someone a leader?
•  Is there one kind of personality that fits into the leader category or can there be different types of leaders? 
• Later on in the discussion, try to clarify, together with the participants, what the significance of commemoration via a street name is: What does the street express?

Talk about the fact that street names express our public space and our aspirations for what it will look like. 

Jerusalem is a city of connections, of unity and of leadership in the Jewish people.

Choosing the names of leaders as the names of streets in the most central city of the Jewish world, intends to create a public space of leadership and of never-ending aspirations to be good and to lead- each person in his unique field.

Every participant chooses the name of a leader whose road (named after the leader) he would want to live on.