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JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
Friday, September 2, 1960
Hada$$ah event helped build children s villages
Editor's note^ The Vancouver Hadassah Bazaar lo be held again Ihis year in ihe Commercial Building at Exhibition Park on Tuesday a,nd Wednesday, October 25 and 26 has grown to the proportion of a community institution over the years. This fourth installment in a series of articles written by Mrs. Grad shows hov/ the villages of Hadassim and Nahalal in Israel influenced the enlargement of this project.
By DOROTHY GRAD
During the second world war the village of Hadassinx was son-ceived and planned by Jewish mothers in Canada, members of Canadian. Hadassah WIZO. On December 18, 1944 the first, furrow was ploughed on a JNF tract near the malaria infested Wadi Falik. In August 1947 the
village for children and youth
from all over the world was completed.
Thus a new project was created to increase the Canadian Hadassah WIZO budget and consequently, Vancouver Hadassah's budget was increased.
Ib the beginning Hadassim was populated by 50 Hungarian and
Polish orphans from DP camps and decimated Jewish communities. These children were joined by 50 Sabras. The idea was to create a mixed community with a predominantly Israeli tone, into which children could be assimilated.
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In its first year it saw the War of Liberation and the Declaration of Independence. Despite the dangers and isolation which existed during and after the war, a flourishing farm has developed with classrooms, wiorkshops, a hospital, dormitories, swimming pool and sports grounds, high school buildings and science laboratories.
Children from all the countries of the Diaspora have been absorbed by Hadassim to make a student p|opulation of 400. It is designed to make children into constructive and well rounded citizens of a democratic society. Half the children are sent by social welfare agencies and the Youth Aliyah Department of the Jewish Agency. The other half are placed by their parents for various reasons. Some are froni broken homes, some are "half orphans", - some are sent because both parents must work; some are seiit while their parents go abroad for an extended stay and others are sent be cause their parents want them to have thfe progressive rural education for which Hadassim has such an excellent reputation.
The children integrate well because the educators keep in mind the differences! of the youngsters and through understanding they help them to overcome their individual problems.
Hadassim is a co-educational schQol, divided into a children's, commtinity and a youth i community, each of which is in turn divided into kvutzot of folrty children of the same age. ^lach kvutza, which is supervised by a group councillor, elects its own group qomniittee, which forms the Village Council. This ill turn has a -General Assembly
which to re|)ott. . -'^-^
jTliis i& tbesto Uadasr^ sioi, a (lem^Q^ yiilagei^^teaek^ ing.the children to li^rinL^i ,4eni> pcraik; spci^ty. wb|le .they: are also learnihg the necessary academic subjects of their year, Talopg with a good .agricultural training.
NAHALAL
TJiirty-five years ago, the WIZO Agricuxtural School at Nahalal was initiated by Chana MaisdL Shochat; who pioneered the idea of a training farm for girls in Eretz. The farm was designed to equip Jewish wonien^ to take th^ir places side by side with men in the spiritual and physical renaissance of the homeland.
Five hundred dunams of land in the Emek were allocated by the Keren Kayemet for the farm, and Chana Maisel started work with her first 11 students. In 1927 the Canadian Hadassah WIZO made the school at Nahalal its special responsibility and has, since then, helped it over the hurdles of growth and expansion.
Although originally intended only for girls, thus the first school of its kind in the Near East, the school gradually changed with the times and began to accept boys as well. Its student body continually reflected the waves of immigration which came to the country and in turn the curriculum underwent substantial changes. Today it is a recognized co-educational secondary agricultural school, whose four year course leads to matriculation.
The practical farming course is of three years duration andT the secondary agricultural course four years, upon completion of which, students are elig^ ible for university studies. The
daily schedule calls for six hours of study and three hours of practical work in the various farm branches.
Nahalal has living quarters for 270 pupils and facilities for additional day students. There is housing for the staff and in addition to the classrooms and laboratories, a library, gymnasium cinema hall,, club rooms and a large modem dining hall and kitchen. Agricultural buildings include a dairy barn, poultry runs, sheep pens and silos. Fourteen hundred and fifty dunams of land are used for vegetable gardens, field crops, orchards, vineyards, citrus groves and tree nurseries.
Graduates of Nahalal will be found from Dan to Eilat, husky, self-assured and devoted to the tilling and defence of the land. Milking cows or tending baby chicks in the Plains of ^haron, picking grapefruit or bending over vines in the Emek, hoeing olive pT almond trees in the Galilee, older graduates will be found—those who attended the school in the years when girls only were admitted. More recent graduates will be found in the fields of the Negev, on the bleak plateau of the Arava and in the border settleihents where their hands move as readily to the rifle as to the ploughshare.
Nahalal gave these young men and wonien, 2,000 strong, the spiritual and mental equipment for life in a pionewri^ig country. Nahalal and aU Israel has been richly rewarded by all they have been able to give to the lipbuild-irig of the land.
'WOTHEH OF SETTLEMENTS'
Nahalal has been called the "j^lother of Settlenients." It lias earned that name. A whole generation has turned to it for susr tenance and support to the most barren and remote regions of the country. As loitg as the State Ot ismel has land to be cultiyat-ed, outposts, to be niaime^ an<t: .i^n^^ant-settlere to be^^^^g^^ ^and' tirsdiiMid, Nahalal will have a'yifar role to^^^^^ in the de-veloj^ment of the country.
What, you may ask, have these .two villages in Israel, to do with the Vancouver Hadassah Bazi-aar? The answer is simple. As Vancouver. Hadassah grevir, so did the aisnual budget and thus, the decision was made Jto have the bazaar the ii^ohey raising, project for Nahalal and Hadassim. Inadvertently, these two villages in the Near East help the economy of Canada.
To maintain the villages, the monies raised at the Vancouver Bazaar and all the other fund raising projects designated for Nahalal and Hadassim across Canada, are spent in this country. Lumber, one of B.C.'s major industries, is bought here and sent to Israel to build up the villages. Foodstuffs such as fish and prairie wheat, are also
Histadrut leader makes unofficial visit to Vancouver
BEN ADELMAN
Ben Adelman of Winnipeg, western regional chairman, of the Israel Histadrut Campaign, is at present visiting Vancouver accompanied by his wife. An Oneg Shabbat, honoring the
guests has been arranged by active workers of the Caimpaign at the home of Mr. aud Mrs. Ben Lapidus, 5269 Cambie Street, on Friday evening, September 2. On this occasion, Mr. and Mrs. Adelman will meet with their many Vancouver friends.
On arrival^ Mr; Adelman stated that thougit his visit is of a -private nature^ thevoccasion being the birth of a grand-dau^ter, he would devote as much time as possible to the interests of the Histadrut Campaign, in whose leadership he has been for 30 years.
Mr. Adelpcian has be^ acl^ve i-n all aspects of Labour Zionism, directing most of his enei^gie&: towards actively support^iig "the pre^State era and after the establishment of the State of Israel -—the pioneering forces^ Cw^hich foirm thievGpvjernment; ca^: tsrael aiact:Sastitaru^^ alsob^;; active, in; j^JA^,; *fewish and ■ t>art«^at^ in tiite ::fieicf mc^ Jewish educajtiian.; '" .;-v':'';
bought here abd sent to the^vil-iages. Their hospitals receive Canadian Tnedical supplies, anil nuany, many more . Canadiatt commodities are bought here and sent to Israel. Tlius, by , supporting Nahalal and. i$a44s?/ sim, Canada is also helping h^ own economy and' creatiii^:jot» here at home itt these ^eqifie fields.
With all this in mind, plaii8 to increase the over-air bazaar were formulated in 1^52.
(Continued next week)
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