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"Israeli teenagers are saddled with much more responsibility than are their Canadian counterparts, according to a Richmond resident studying at Pardess Hainna Agricultural Secondary School.
"They're also not able to have the same opportunities we have," Darren Mackoff, 15, said in a Bulletin interview.
Darren is one of two Canadian and 32 American stu-- dents in a one-year special academic program at the school, sponsored through Youth Aliyah. He and 16-year-old Robyn Lovell, of Vancouver, decided to stay in classes throughout the Persian Gulf war and remain at the school, some 70 kilometres north of Tel Aviv, until June.
At 7:30 p.m. this coming Wednesday, May 8, Pardess Hanna principal Rina Genn will answer questions about the high school during an open hoiise at the * home of Darren's parents. Dr. Harley and Leslie Mackoff, on 4571
Mahood Dr.
Robyn isn*t sure that Israeli teens are forced to grow up immediately. "Fvegotto hand it to them,** slfe said during a Vancouver visit. "They do have fun in their own way ... until they're 18. They don't go overboard."
The high school's enrolment of 1,400 includes youths from local kibbutzim boarding at the institution. Foreign students, who take a curriculum based on that in Los Angeles schools (with Jewish subjects added), do agricultural work one day a week.
While their Israeli counterparts try to follow North American fashions, knowledge about Canada is sometimes sparse.,"I had an argument with one Israeli who insisted that Canada and the United States are exactly the same size!" Darren recalled.
Especially in the wake of the Gulf war, he said, students have taken to wearing the American colors of red, white and blue. "But they're years back in style. They're still into the 70s," he remarked.
Roby feels that the Israeli program at Pardess Hanna is stricter than that offered to North American students, but Darren detects a note of informality. "They call teachers by their first names and so do we. Yqu get a closer
AT&T hangs up on anti-Israel plan
NEW YORK - American Telephone and Telegraph Co. shareholders have voted overwhelmingly against a proxy proposal put forth by the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi hate group, that would have required the phone company to stop doing business in Israel.
Fully 96 percent of votes came in against the proposal, according to reports from Chicago, where the coni-pany's annual shareholders' meeting took place. The National Alliance recommended that AT&T stop doing business with Israeli-owned firms in order to express "moral outrage" over Israel's "ghastly record of human rights violations perpetrated upon the Palestinian people."
relationship with the teachers there than you would here."
The Vancouver pair have observed a strong sense of patriotism in the country. Israeli flags are visible "eviery-where you go," said Darren. Added Robyn: "It made me proud to be there with them,"
That sense of nationalism carries forth in the school itself, where, according to
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Darre.h, politics are frequently' discussed in the hallways.
During the past year, Israeli labor leader Shimon Peres made an appearance in the secondary school. For Peres, it may have been aP^rong career move; Darren says the aspiring prime minister was heckled by "quite a few students."
"They're pretty right-wing in Israel. [Likud prime minis-ter] Yitzhak Shamif will be there a few more years." -
Though somei young Is-iaei»s d^i watimgdVmifie^ army, few resist service actively, according to Robyn. By the time they're in high school, she said, they realize their duty.
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The ceasefire that put an effective end to the Gulf war was announced on Purim, making the day especially festive for the Vancouver students. They visited Tel Aviv to find costumed celebrants dizzily squirting shaving cream on each other — and on them.
Earlier, when Iraqi missiles were a threat, the curriculum at Pardes Hanna Agricultural Secondary was especially relevant.
"We were doing projects on current events. We discussed what was going to happen," Robyn remembered. "Everyone did at least 90 [percent]."
To find out more about Monday's open house, call Rony Levin at the Israel Aiiyah Centre, 266-5333.
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Local Student returns from year on kibbutz
By LISA COURT
Just over a year ago I left my house, boarded a plane and flew away from my home, my family, my friends. I was flying towards an unknown life, an unknown future. My destination: Israel.
Just eight months later, I also boarded a plane and flew away from my home, my family, my friends. Destination: Canada. What happened during thosie months in between? Where was I? .
Simply put, I was having one of the best years of my life. I was on an America-Israel program for tenth graders. For ten months, seventeen of us, from all over North America, were living on Kibbutz Kfar Blum, located on the banks of the Jordan River in the beautiful Huleh Valley.
We went to school there, fiye days a week, at Huleh -y^Uey High School. It was l^he . regular tenth grades curriculum, so noiie of us came back behind or missing any credits. Besides regular classes, we studied Hebrew, Jewish His-
as well as some five-day over-nighters: trekking around the Galilee, exploring Jerusalem, hiking in the Negev, Judean Desert, and Eilat. We certainly saw the country from head to foot.
I think the most important things I came away with were my connections to Judaism, to Hebrew, to my family, to the rest of the class and the Israeli kids, and of course, to Israel. I know these are all ties which I will have for a long time to come.
I can say, without a doubt, that we all left Israel, our new home, with lasting bonds, a broader education, lots of friends, better Hebrew, and a very large photo album. ' There is also a very similar program for eleventh graders on Kibbutz Beit Hashita. For more information, or an application, contact Wendy Serlin, B'nai B'rith International Israel Commission, 1640 Rhode Island Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036.
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tory, and a choice of French or Bible.
Once a week we all went off on our own to work, to the refei with the cows, the children's house, the kitchen, or the orchards. This was the day mMe i8fl rekl mfwj kibbutz life, working aiiiongst ■ Israelis, practising our Hebrew.
On the seventh" day, of course, we rested.. Everyone looked forward to Kabbalat Shabbat together on Friday nights, and sleeping in late on Saturday mornings.
Another important aspect of the year was our families. Everyone was "adopted" by a kibbutz family. Although you don't live with them, you have a place to eat diimef; relax; f and be in a family atfnos-' phere. Most people really enjoyed having a family to go to. I know I owe a lot to my parents" and three younger "siblings" With whom I became very close.
Then there were our tiyulihi (trips). Wehad a few day trips
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