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Kibbutz Beth Ha'emek, and Aliya in 1950 and those than farm workers? With hindsight, of course, higher
who stayed behind and in actual fact formed a new education and non-agricultural work were to be the
garin (group). I was caught in between, having joined mainstay of the State of Israel in the future but we
the “older” group as a youngster, and was now the could not predict this. The philosophy of the Zionist-
same age as those now joining the Hachshara and socialist movement was to create an “educated”
forming a new group. peasantry, and to invert the typical Jewish
One has to ask the question, was the movement demographic society, with more workers and less
correct in recruiting someone as young as I was and businessmen and educators etc.
later, when Hachsharot Noar was introduced, of I ended up staying in Hurst Grange for approximately
recruiting a large number of 15-17 year olds. Would 2 years, then spent a short time in Glasgow, then
it not have been better to encourage them to attend moved to the David Eder Farm and eventually to
university, or technical schools, to have careers that Israel.
could contribute to the building of the State, rather

Hurst Grange today

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