After completing her studies in the Revivim program, and for many years thereafter, Osnat Eldar taught Bible, literature and Jewish Thought in Israel’s state secondary school system. In 2014, the World Zionist Organization chose her and her family to be Aliyah emissaries in Rockville, Maryland, where Osnat taught Bible and Jewish Thought at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School. 

After the family returned to Israel, Osnat began Rabbinical studies in the Reform Movement’s Israel Rabbinical Program in Jerusalem. Today she is the Reform and Progressive Movement’s Director for the Greater Haifa District and heads the Tali Foundation’s Halleli Programs for Tali School teachers and principals. In addition, Osnat is Rabbi of the “Sulam Ya’acov” Reform congregation in Zichron Ya’acov.

She recently published her first book of poetry, “The Well of Miriam.”  

Osnat is married to Daniel, the mother of three delightful teenage daughters, and lives on Kibbutz Ramot Menashe.

Osnat composed the following prayer towards the New Year (Elul 5780, September 2020):

O God in heaven,

As the year soon ending ebbs and wanes, as words catch in our throats, breaking into shards of letters that refuse to come together, to join and coalesce into phrases of compassion and love, the sound of the Shofar blares out Tekia… Shevarim… Teruah… 

Its sound rends the gates of the heavens with a prayer that the year soon upon us be one of forgiveness and mercy.

Spread over us the bower of your peace and grant us the wisdom and patience to welcome the coming year with faith and trust that it will be better than the one it follows, more blessed than the one gone by.

May the coming year be one of healing, one in which we once again learn to walk free and in the open, spared masks disguising body and soul. May we reunite and join together, embrace and heal.

O, may you lead us this year in peace, unity, amity and health. May we replace the words of confinement, closure and restraint with those of love and compassion.   

May we be freed of enemies and hidden adversaries, may plagues and illness be cast out, and may we embrace friends and loved ones, from afar and near.   

May the gates of our hearts be opened and the soul freed of its prison, let loose to wander through creation, taking shape and coming true, like bountiful, blessed rains and hope that soon, very soon, will come.

With shower after shower, may the air be cleansed of the dust of hurtful words, the streets cleared of the curses of the year gone by, and may the buds of the blessings of the coming year grow like the squill blooming in the yards.

O restore us safely to ourselves, to the spark of godliness that exists within us, within all of us, like those born in your image, in your likeness. O may that spark become the flame of humanity, the love of humankind, the love of the earth.

Blessed art thou o lord, who hears our prayer.

Hamutal Or Elbaz, a graduate of Revivim's twelfth cohort, who teaches Bible and is a homeroom teacher in Jerusalem's René Cassin High School, spoke about Jewish values from the perspective of traditional Israeli youth in the "Hyde Park Stage" session of  the "Judaism Israel and Diaspora Conference"  held in Jerusalem on October 30^th, 2019. Hamutal spoke about the relevance of Bible studies to all students in the Israeli public school system, and shared examples of her students' engagement with Biblical stories, their values and morals. 

Revivim proudly reports that Esther Meyer Hurwitz, graduate of Revivim’s seventh cohort and
a current Bible teacher in Ort Binyamina, was recently granted the Rothschild Prize in Education in Memory of Max Rowe.

Revivim congratulates Amitai Teperberg, graduate of Revivim’s ninth cohort and a current Bible teacher in Ostrovsky High School in Raanana for being selected among the 50 noteworthy teachers of the year by Yediot Aharonot newspaper.