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תורחואמה 40 - ה תונש – ילש הרשעה תונש תפוקתב ardently to a talk on the pioneers in Israel,
,ייח זכרמ תויהל הכפה העונתה , 50 - ה תונש תליחתו given by a very charismatic madrich (youth
לכב ףתת שהל ץמאמ יתישע .ןיטולחל הילא רוסמ יתייהו leader). This intellectual activity was
,הכרדה ,םילויט ,תונחמ ללוכ ,תירשפא תיתעונת הלועפ followed by Israeli folk dancing which was a
תודיעמ הטמל תונומתה .'וכו תוביסמ big turn on and, together with the hormones,
aroused those powerful latent Zionist feelings
יל וקיצה ףאש ,ירוה לש תינלוק תודגנתה יתגפס תיבב
יב ריצפה יבא .רפסה תיבב םילדה םיגשיהה ללגב which brought me to my first Habonim camp
ראות לבקלו דומללו תורגבה תוניחב תא םילשהל in Caergwrle, N. Wales in 1949, a year later.
תובוחרב הפשא ףו סאל ןודינ ינא – ןכ אל םאש ,ימדקא From then on, the going was smooth. No
אישב זא יתייה ינא לבא .שיבכב לעופ תויהל םתס וא longer British citizen of Jewish persuasion,
.םירוענה דרמ now I was a British citizen by virtue of being
born in Britain, whose national identity is
Israel, the Jewish State.
Cycling camp,
1951
(Aryeh back
right with
woollen cap)

SELF-REALISATION

FROM A LUXURIOUS HOME IN FINCHLEY TO A
Performance for first decade of Jewish State,
WOODEN HUT IN KFAR HANASSI – FROM HIS
1958 (Aryeh 1st left)
MEMOIRS, ENGLISH VERSION
My devotion to the movement in my
ARYEH WOLFIN subsequent teenage years, during the late 40s
A my life, having attended every movement
and early 50s, was total. It became central to
bust of Herzl and a huge relief wall
map of Palestine adorned the room
activity that I possibly could, at the expense
that served as a study at home always
aroused my curiosity. of school studies, much to my parents’
consternation.
It was at this point that my friends from
cheder invited me to join the new Habonim
group that was about to start up in the sukkah
of the Kinloss Gardens Shul. I was at first
sceptical, but when I heard that, unlike the
JLB, there were girls there, I immediately
agreed to join with great enthusiasm.

Present at the meeting were some twenty-five Rosh Machaneh at Habonim Camp,
youths of my age of both sexes, listening 1955 (Aryeh holding the flag)

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