Sep 10, 2007 -- Jackie Saxe of Great Neck, NY, a senior at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, was one of four students nationwide appointed to the executive committee of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Each year AIPAC appoints four exceptional student leaders to its executive committee in recognition of their dedication and unique perspective. As part of AIPAC’s leadership, these accomplished campus activists travel to Washington, DC four times a year to hear from Middle East scholars and foreign policy experts and to lobby side by side with their counterparts off campus. Ms. Saxe, a communications and political science major who graduated from Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC), has been an active member of AIPAC and took on the role of YU’s AIPAC campus liaison because she “believes that her peers have unlimited potential to influence the political system in ways that support Israel.” She was selected for AIPAC’s Diamond Summer Internship Program, a highly regarded political leadership training program, and was one of six YU students recognized as activist of the year at AIPAC’s annual conference in Washington, DC last March. “I look forward to representing YU and the Modern Orthodox pro-Israel community at the executive committee meetings and on the Hill. I am a proud American and Zionist, and I believe that the United States-Israel relationship is essential for both countries,” Ms. Saxe said.