Page 8 - Issue 33

Commemorating Rabin’s

Assassination and Building

Democracy - To a Beat

Every year,
Dror Israel
members
spend the
weeks around
the memorial
day for the
murder of
Yitzhak Rabin
educating all
across the
country. This period is called “Cheshbon V’Zikaron” -
Accounting and Memory - and the peilut takes many forms:
peulot in NOAL kenim, day-long seminars at middle and
high schools, tkasim
(ceremonies), city-wide
gatherings of people from
diverse backgrounds to
build democracy, and, this
year, even a musical.

“Cheshbon Pashut” -
Simple Math - is an
original hip-hop musical
written by movement
members. The main
characters are a present-
day group of high