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into a Travel Agency and found one of my As is well known a ‘g’ is pronounced like the
chaverim from the Nederlands, Shlomo Hebrew Chet in Holland. One day on a tram,
Groenberg. If I remember correctly, he did I was wearing my Habonim badge with the
not give me any work. In 1952, while training Ivrit Beth emblazoned on it. Standing
with the Garin in Gal Ed, on a Chofesh, I alongside me in the crowded vehicle, a
passenger started a conversation asking me if
I was member of the ‘Mishpaga’. At first
confounded I realised that he was asking if I
was a member of the ‘Mishpacha’. A short
chat ensued that I have not forgotten.
In the end only 3 of us came on Aliyah to Gal
Ed, with Mike Finestone arriving later and
moving with his family from Arad to open an
optician shop close to where he lived in
Givataim. Ultimately, the entire time spent in
Holland was well worthwhile. We enlarged
our perspectives, which were perhaps
previously confined to technical training,
Habonim in Holland - 1950s
Zionism and Israel.
visited Mordechai and Ruth Erlichman,
Pictures of
who had settled in Lydda (Lud) and were Habonim in
living in very difficult conditions. Carla, Holland in the
who was on Hachshara with us, married 1950s, courtesy
of Orit Neriya,
Howard Harris. Later they divorced and Kibbutz Amiad,
Carla retired to a home near Kfar Saba. bogeret Dutch
Habonim
Howard and wife Roma
Spike Milligan with Howard
1952 First group of Garin Gimmel to THE ABOVE IS AN EXCERPT FROM HOWARD’S JUST
Hachsharah at Kibbutz Galed PUBLISHED BOOK, “THE YEAR OF A DREAM 1952-1953” -
60 THE HISTORY OF GARIN GIMMEL AT GALED – AVAILABLE ON
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