There are trips, parties, and festival celebrations, including of course the recent Purim party. Tours are taken to Ein Gedi and Sde Boker, to the Western Wall tunnels and Yad Vashem, as well as to the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv. There is also Israeli folk dancing. Students meet for group discussions on set topics such as the cultural differences between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. But he changed his mind upon hearing of Ulpan Etzion.
Ulpan members have at least one university degree.
Doctors, lawyers and electronic engineers are all brought together by their desire to live in Israel. Many are placed in the ulpan through their local branch of the Jewish Agency back home. Immigrants who attend the ulpan as day students don't pay. Numbers in the Ulpan have decreased slightly because of the political situation, says Pilzer. Ulpan Etzion is situated five minutes away from Gilo.