HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed

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HaNoar HaOved's emblem (semel) "Motto reads: "To Labour, Defence and Peace, Rise and Actualize"

Histadrut HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed (Hebrew: הסתדרות הנוער העובד והלומד‎, lit. The Federation of Working and Studying Youth), sometimes abbreiviated to No'al (Hebrew: נוע"ל‎) is an Israeli youth movement, a sister movement of Habonim Dror, the Labor Zionist movement and a member of the IFM-SEI. The movement was founded in 1924 by youth working to defend their rights.

In the 1990s, along with the decline of the kibbutz movement, HaNoar HaOved VeHalomed began re-examining the ideal life path of its members, which had always began settling kibbutzim in gar'inim after finishing their mandatory period of army service. Instead, a model started to be put forward in which bogrim ("graduates") of the movement formed small urban communes working in society, particularly in education. Today, there are about 1,000 members of HaNoar HaOved VeHalomed's Tnuat Bogrim ("Movement of Graduates") living in small communes in cities or kibbutzim and working in Israeli Society - mostly in education and the youth movement.

[edit] Goals of membership

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The movement aims that each member aspires to the following goals:

To be an adolescent who sees the human being and his happiness as the central foundation of his creation and lives by this belief.
To be an adolescent who stands for democratic and socialist principles.
To be an adolescent who sees in the Jewish tradition a source of inspiration and influence, not a source of authority.
To be an adolescent whose own responsibility and criticism are the foundations of his life conception and life-style's consolidation.
To be an adolescent who bases his material and cultural existence on his own creation.
To be an adolescent who is involved and active in social changing processes led by his beliefs and concepts.
To be an adolescent whose ambition is to live in the state of Israel and takes part in its defense and building.
To be an adolescent whose ambition is to live in a Kibbutz or in any other socialist and cooperative way of living.