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sleeping there and we were the last members of as we drove around the country. I had tears in
the Movement to do so on the last night of its my eyes as I read to them from the board by
existence as The Bayit, before it became a Herzl's tomb, the brief account and the still-
traditional and very expensive London home for inspiring story of the return of Jewish people to
a family who now live there with no knowledge their own land.
of its previous existence and iconic status.
From the Movement, I acquired a road map for
I now knew that the way to keep my children my family’s Jewish journey, a passionate and
Jewish was for them also to join a Jewish Youth continuing interest in the Jewish people, Israel
Movement with Israel tour and the now and Zionism and lifelong friendships with
fashionable “gap year” in Israel. I also took Chaverim in the UK and Israel.
them on their first trip to Israel as small children,
who were surprisingly thrilled as I pointed out “Come to Habonim.” It seemed a good idea at
the location of the various Habonim Kibbutzim the time, way back in 1972, and it still does.
Devon, 1975
March for Soviet Jewry, May 1976
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