During each semester, there are at least three levels of Hebrew, six hours per week. Interested students receive individual and group hours. There is a two week optional Kibbutz program in September and an archeological dig in January. OSP students share apartment suites with Israeli students in regular BGU dormitories. This maximizes contact with Israelis and contributes to fluency in Hebrew.
Israeli students participate in trips and can take courses of the program .
It is the dynamic, frontier and immigrant city of Israel's future. Students can tutor children in the neighborhood, volunteer in OSP projects helping Russian and Ethiopian immigrants, or teach English to Bedouin. Scholarships are provided based on need.