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The Hadassah Neurim Youth Village, founded by Akiva Yishai, was the first vocational school for Youth Aliyah children, who had been offered only agricultural training until then. [1] From the 1960s to the 1980s, young people from broken or troubled homes were sent to youth villages. Today some of the villages have closed, but many continue to ...
HaKfar HaYarok - Levi Eshkol Green Village (Hebrew: הכפר הירוק) is a youth village in Israel, located in southern Ramat HaSharon, along the northern border of Tel Aviv. It is also the main competitor of the blue village .
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Ben Shemen youth village, 1920s-30s. The village was established in 1927 on the land of the Hadid factory by Siegfried Lehman.Lehman had previously intended to establish the village in the Harod Valley, [2] but decided against it after learning that Anopheles mosquitoes in the marshes could pose a deadly hazard to future students. [2]
The village was established in 1948 by Yehiel Harif to absorb children who had survived the Holocaust. [2] It was named after Yitzhak Gruenbaum. [2] Today the village is a boarding school that teaches 675 children (275 residential, 400 day students) from 7th to 12th grade.
History [ edit ] The school was founded in 1936 and today teaches around 350 students from seventh to twelfth grade, most of whom are new immigrants from Ethiopia who arrive at the school with the help of Youth Aliyah .
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By the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 330, all Jews. [12] The village was used as a training base by the Haganah due to its remote location in a mountainous area. In 1957 it was made a partnership between the State and the organisation, and today exists as a youth village. [13]