How Seed the Dream saw an opening and helped rewrite the Israel travel playbook with Maccabi USAMost philanthropists name their foundation after themselves. Israel Connect keeps Team USA in the country once the competition ends. Gringlas and her team brought that playbook, its data and its contacts to the athletes’ Israel Connect trips. In June, Israel Educational Travel Alliance told eJP that Israel travel costs are up 75% since 2019. The same pressure ran across the season of Israel travel, from Birthright to RootOne to the Maccabiah.