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Name: Ari Levy Kvutsah: Ogen (Anchor) No. of Members: 8
Why Ogen?: Anchors are good. (Breaking into song) “My life, my lover, my
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lady is the sea” Date of Aliyah: Nov 4 2004
Favourite Socialist / Zionist. Why? Berl Katznelson because he was both
a prolific visionary and a realist who was willing to go against the tide and
whose vision is still relevant to today.

Funniest Movement Moment: When I was Rosh machaneh Gilboa in
California we were switching to machaneh time on the first day and we
accidentally switched direction and the whole macheneh slept til eleven.

When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say? No flash photography

Your name denotes Levite descent – are you? I am

The Jewish law says that Levites should be paid a tithe of corn (grain), wine, olive oil, fruit, and
cattle. You up for that? As long as I don’t have kick up to the Cohanim because I like to maintain in the
kvutsah that Josh and Mauri are my bitches.

Current Ringtone: Who can it be now by Men at Work

What are you reading right now? Antek Zuckerman’s autobiography

What music are you listening to right now? Jethro Tull

Food you would rather not eat: Sweet potatoes

Vision for the new Kibbutz Movement… Freedom from and freedom to

Tafkid in the movement: Co-ordinator for English-speaking southern hemisphere shnat, Connection with
Habo Holland, Tzevet Meracez.

Randomim Dror

Each issue we will recall the existence of Habonim Dror in a random country! This issue, Egypt:

In the spring of 1949, Eliyahu Brakha and Haim Sha’ul, arrived in Cairo as shlichim. Sha’ul was a graduate of
ha-’Iviri ha-Tza’ir in Egypt and knew the movement's local leadership well, but Brakha had the confidence of
the Israeli government and the Jewish Agency which were dominated by MAPAI [The Israel Workers
Party], while ha-Shomer ha-Tza’ir was a component of the rival MAPAM [The United Workers' Party].
Brakha split the united he-Halutz [Pioneer] movement, which before his arrival had sent its graduates to
kibbutzim affiliated with both MAPAI and MAPAM, by demanding that it be transformed into MAPAI's ha-
Bonim [The Builders] youth movement. About half the members refused and formed Dror - he-Halutz ha-
Tza’ir [Freedom - The Young Pioneer], the youth organization of ha-Kibutz ha-Me'uhad [The United
Kibbutz] federation which was, until 1954, mainly affiliated with MAPAM, though it was less solidly left
wing than ha-Shomer ha-Tza’ir's kibbutz federation.
Dror established a strong base at the Lycée de l'Union Juive pour l'Enseignment of Alexandria where,
according to one graduate, the dominant ideology was Marxism-Leninism. Alexandre Roche, for example,
taught his students dialectical and historical materialism in geography class, and Ms. Mizrahi had her nine-
year-old pupils conduct monthly sessions of criticism and self-criticism. In preparation for MAPAM's
second party congress in Israel, Dror members began to discuss the positions of the party's two kibbutz
movements on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and other political issues such as democratic centralism. The
left-wingers concluded that the kibbutz was not a revolutionary institution at all, and many of them adopted
communist positions. After a year and a half of ideological ferment, Dror's leadership decided to liquidate
the movement in June 1952. Most of the senior members became communists in Egypt, Israel, or France;
others joined ha-Shomer ha-Tza’ir.