Kedma was established during 2014 by a group of motivated and idealistic-driven Israeli young adults to restore the foundational Zionist values of settling Jews in Israel’s remote peripheries – to strengthen and actually mark Israel’s borders. Kedma has established and maintained 18 Student Villages, 12 Gap Year groups, 8 Youth Villages for dis-charged soldiers, 3 Young Families Communities and other programs across Israel’s northern, eastern and southern borders, engaging over 5,000 Israeli young-adults volunteers. Kedma members have touched the lives and strengthened community resilience of tens of thousands of Israelis who live throughout the country’s borderlands. We are proud of the positive change our activities brought to these regions – 71% of all Kedma alumni choose to remain and live in border Young Families Communities, and the overall population of the communities we worked with since 2014, has cumulatively increased by 63%.