Gadna, the Israel army’s youth training branch, is continuing a program to induce the children of yordim to return home. For the second successive year it will operate a summer camp for 15-18 year-old children of Israeli families living permanently abroad.
About 200 carefully selected teen-agers will attend the camp where they will mingle with their Israeli peers. The project has attracted the personal attention of Chief of Staff Gen. Rafael Eiton and Leon Dulzin, chairman of the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency Executives.
A film of the camp’s activities was screened for the WZO executive this week and will be distributed among Jewish communities in the U.S. One of the participants in last year’s six-week Gadna camp is Shirin Bar-Sela of Houston, Texas who appears in the film. She is returning to Israel in April to fulfill her military training obligations. The film deals with the doubts and debates in the Bar-Sela family before she decided to join the Gadna camp last year.
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