Plans for a 1956 Summer Institute in Israel sponsored by the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization were announced here today by Label A. Katz, of New Orleans, chairman of the B’nai B’rith Youth Commission. The Institute first of its kind to be sponsored by BBYO, is being undertaken in cooperation with, the Youth Department of the Jewish Agency.
BBYO members will travel as a unit to and from the Middle East. They will spend a total of seven weeks in Israel in July and August, attending seminars, study groups, visiting historical points of interest, and hearing lectures by top-ranking Israeli government officials.
A highlight of the Institute will be a two-week period during which BBYO members will live in a Kibbutz, participating as regular members of one of Israel’s collective settlements. A member of BBYO’s trained staff of group workers will accompany the BBYO contingent during the entire period. The group will be joined in Israel by members of the Jewish Agency’s Youth Department who will conduct them on a series of guided tours.
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