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Encyclopedia > Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed
HaNoar HaOved's emblem (semel) "Motto reads: "To Labour, Defence and Peace, Rise and Make it So"
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HaNoar HaOved's emblem (semel) "Motto reads: "To Labour, Defence and Peace, Rise and Make it So"

Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed (Hebrew: for The Working and Learning Youth) is an Israeli youth organization. A sister movement of Habonim Dror, the Labor Zionist movement. It is the second largest of the youth movements in Israel, as well as the most varied. Image File history File links Hanoarhaal-semel. ... Image File history File links Hanoarhaal-semel. ... Hebrew (עִבְרִית, ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ... A youth organization is a formal organization aimed at children and adolescents for education and socialization. ... The Habonim Dror Emblem (known as its Semel / סמל) The semel is symbolic of many things: the grain in its center symbolizes labor, the figure in its center shows the importance of people to the movement. ... Labor Zionism (or Labour Zionism) is the traditional left-wing of the Zionist ideology. ... A Zionist youth movement is an organization formed for Jewish children and adolescents for educational, social and ideological development, including a belief in Jewish nationalism as represented in the State of Israel. ...


The movement was founded in 1924 by youth working to defend their rights. 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...


The movement's mission is to develop models of cooperative life (in addition to the kibbutz), to assist the weaker social sectors, to absorb tens of thousands of immigrant youth, and to continue the struggle for the image of Israeli society as a more just society, egalitarian, democratic, tolerant, Zionist, and peace loving-all this under crisis conditions that are threatening the very wholeness of Israeli society. Kibbutz Dan, near Qiryat Shemona, in the Upper Galilee, 1990s A kibbutz (Hebrew: קיבוץ; plural: kibbutzim: קיבוצים, gathering or together) is an Israeli collective community. ...


An educational mainstay of the movement is the service year: twelfth grade graduates who postpone their military service and live as a group in development towns and cities. Members of these groups volunteer in informal educational activities in the movement's centers, community centers, youth clubs, immigrant absorption centers, and work closely with schools, etc. During this year, members of the group function, not only as educators, but are also being educated: the process they went trough in the movement continues in this voluntary process, too, to strengthen the relationship of the members to quality learning and to social and economic participation.


Today the movement has dozens of branches, centers and clubhouses throughout Israel, from Kiryat Shemona and the Golan Heights in the north to Eilat in the south. Tens of thousands of Jewish, Arab, and Druze young people are members; young people who work and study in the cities, development towns, kibbutzim and moshavim; affected young people and young immigrants. All are guided and accompanied in ways that are appropriate to them, working to strengthen the intra-movement relationship. Qiryat Shemona in the spring of 1978 Qiryat Shemona (Hebrew: קִרְיַת שְׁמוֹנָה, ; unofficially also spelled Kiryat Shmona) is a city in the North District in Israel. ... Sites on the Golan in blue are Israeli settlement communities. ... Eilat (Hebrew אֵילַת, Standard Hebrew Elat, Eylat), pop. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... The Arabs (Arabic: عرب ) are an ethnic group found throughout the Middle East and North Africa. ... The Druze (Arabic: darazÄ« درزي, pl. ... Moshav (Hebrew: מושב Translit. ...

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Goals of membership

The movement aims that each member aspires to the following goals:

  1. To be an adolescent who sees the human being and his happiness as the central foundation of his creation and lives by this belief.
  2. To be an adolescent who stands for democratic and socialist principles.
  3. To be an adolescent who sees in the Jewish tradition a source of inspiration and influence, not a source of authority.
  4. To be an adolescent whose own responsibility and criticism are the foundations of his life conception and life-style's consolidation.
  5. To be an adolescent who bases his material and cultural existence on his own creation.
  6. To be an adolescent who is involved and active in social changing processes led by his beliefs and concepts.
  7. To be an adolescent whose ambition is to live in the state of Israel and takes part in its defense and building.
  8. To be an adolescent whose ambition is to live in a Kibbutz or in any other socialist and cooperative way of living.

See also

A Zionist youth movement is an organization formed for Jewish children and adolescents for educational, social and ideological development, including a belief in Jewish nationalism as represented in the State of Israel. ...

References

  • English History page from HaNoar haOved vehaLomed web site

External link

  • HaNoar haOved vehaLomed web site (Hebrew)

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Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed at AllExperts (295 words)
Histadrut haNoar haOved vehaLomed (Hebrew: ×"נוער ×"עוב×" ו×"לומ×") for The Federation of Young Students and Workers) is an Israeli youth movement.
A sister movement of Habonim Dror, the Labor Zionist movement.
All are guided and accompanied in ways that are appropriate to them, working to strengthen the intra-movement relationship.
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