Hebrew Scouts Movement in Israel
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| Headquarters | Philips House | ||
| Country | Israel | ||
| Founded | 1919 | ||
| Founder | Aryeh Croch | ||
| Membership | 80,000 | ||
| Chairman | Eli Ben-Yosef | ||
| General Secretary | Cali Cohen | ||
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The Hebrew Scout Movement in Israel (Hebrew: תנועת הצופים העבריים בישראל, Tnoat HaTzofim HaIvriiem BeYisrael) is an Israeli Jewish co-ed Scouting and Guiding association with about 80,000 members. The Hebrew Scout Movement is now the largest youth movement in Israel
It is a member of the Israel Boy and Girl Scouts Federation, which is a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS).
Established in 1919, the Tzofim (Hebrew Scout Movement) was the first Zionist youth movement in Israel and remains today the largest "National Youth Movement" in the country. Tzofim is famously known as the first egalitarian scouting movement in the world, where boys and girls participate together on an equal basis.
The organization was established during Passover of 1918 by some youth and sports associations, including the "Meshotetim" association and the "Herzliya" association that held activities in the format of the founder of world scouting, Baden-Powell. As the head of the movement elected Zvi Nishri. The connection between the associations was loosely if at all and it was not yet fully consolidated movement in every sense of the word.
In 1925 established the first Scout tribe, "Meshotetei BaCarmel" in Hadar neighborhood in Haifa, by the Haifa's Reali School initiated by a teacher – Aryeh Croch (who later stood for many years at the head of the Hebrew Scouts Movement).
In 1939 the religious Scouts, named "Adat HaTzofim" joined to the Hebrew Scout Movement with the leadership of Asher Rivlin as the head of Jewish religious scouting in Israel.
in the 1940s the movement sent the best of scouting graduates to the Palmach. During that time the center of the movement was in the north of the country and the Palmach recruits were trained on the "Reali" school ground before joining to the organization. The Hebrew Scout Movement in Israel also sent its graduates across the country to create Jewish settlements and Hebrew labor, as part of the establishment of the new Jewish state.
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