Page 9 - Issue 18

As it approaches its centenary year, we reprint a profile
of our sister movement Hanoar Haoved Ve’Halomed,
originally printed in Davar, an online newspaper of the
Histadrut, where magshimim from Habonim Dror
actually work as journalists and translators.

96 Years Young, NOAL Empowers

Youth to Work for a Better Future

What connects 95,000 Jewish, Arab
and Druze youths; native-born and
immigrants; workers and students;
from the kibbutz, the city and the
moshav, in 650 different chapters?
The HaNoar HaOved v’HaLomed
youth movement (The Working and
Learning Youth, or NOAL)

By David Twersky & Gil Plotkin,
17.12.2020

In the depths of a global pandemic, things often
feel bleak and paralyzingly out of control. Despite
this, nine teenagers, all members and leaders of
the HaNoar HaOved v’HaLomed youth
movement, refuse to stop dreaming. They, and
some 8,500 more like them, assert their
responsibility over the younger generation and all
of society, by volunteering, mentoring young
children, and unionizing working teens in their
workplaces, honoring the movement’s 96-year-old
legacy.