Eleven Israel Boy Scouts will be junior counselors at the seven Young Judea camps in the United States this summer, and will add an Israeli flavor to the camp programs, Yehoshua Yadlin, secretary general of Tsofim, Israel Scouting Association, announced here today. By teaching Israeli songs and dances and Hebrew, and by helping to lead the scouting and sports program at the Young Judea camps, they will draw American Jewish youth and Israeli youth into closer relationships, he said. They will also attend Boy Scouts of America Jamborees.
In Israel, the Tsofim have 22,000 members, including Arabs, Christians and Druze, National Young Judea, which is supported by Hadassah and the Zionist Organization of America, is the American “brother movement” of the Tsofim in Israel.
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