Rakefet Zalashik, visiting scholar at Temple, arrived on campus in August through a privately funded fellowship that could become the area's first ongoing visiting scholar program in Israel studies. Temple administrators said the program will bolster the school's mission to create a global community by exposing students to religious, cultural and societal issues affecting the Jewish state. Altogether this year, Temple will host 215 visiting scholars from 14 countries, according to Richard Englert, the university's interim provost and senior vice president.