Explore: Halutzim

HeHalutz or HeChalutz (Hebrew: הֶחָלוּץ, lit. "The Pioneer") was a Jewish youth movement that trained young people for agricultural settlement in the Land

Quarantine Camps set up on the Kishon estuary. Many of the immigrants, Halutzim, were infected with malaria for which the area was notorious. Under the

capital of Lithuania) remained free. In October 1940 Hazan, with nine other "halutzim" set off to travel almost 2,000 km to reach Vilna. They were detained and

near the coastal highway (Highway 2). It was one of the first Moshavot of Halutzim in the country, founded in 1882 by Romanian Jews, who in 1883 received

Zionists and supported the Bolsheviks. The migrants became known as pioneers (halutzim), experienced or trained in agriculture who established self-sustaining

of the Jewish immigrants were ideologically driven pioneers, known as halutzim, trained in agriculture and capable of establishing self-sustaining economies

tembel hat is dubbed the national hat of Israel as it was worn by Israeli Halutzim to protect from sunburn. In Sweden, it is known as a "Beppehatt" or "Beppemössa"

own country ceased. The need for community dances first arose among the halutzim (pioneers) of the First Aliyah in 1882, continuing with the Second Aliyah

of the 1920s. Dos Gezang fun Tol (The Song of the Valley) is about the halutzim (Jewish-Zionist pioneers in Palestine), and reflects his 1936 visit to

state, but a socialist state. Pioneers Most of the newcomers were young halutzim (pioneers), who built roads and towns and commenced the draining of marshes