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Name: Leah Silverberg

Tafkid in the Movement:

Central Shlicha of HDNA

Years in the Movement:
22 years! Since 1999,
my first summer at

Machaneh Gesher

Favorite Socialist/Zionist & Why: Tzivia Lubetkin,
because I deeply admire her courage, how she didn’t

give up on her dream and let it lead her to be able to
imagine (and later create) a different reality she
never even experienced first hand. She managed to
lead a historical youth movement through the most

difficult time in history, while still seeing and caring
for each individual.

Funniest Movement Moment: I have a terrible

memory, and I don’t know how funny this story is,
but here goes! When I was in Amelim at Machaneh
Gesher (the summer between grade 5 and grade 6),
we went on tiyul with our kvutza. It was the first
time I had been on this kind of tiyul really in nature

and sleeping outside. I am very scared of snakes...I
was in the lake swimming with friends and thought