Some 2.500 Israeli youths visited West Germany during 1971 as guests of the federal government and local authorities in the framework of an agreement between the government and local Israeli authorities. During the same period, some 4,300 German youths visited Israel as guests of the Israelis. Most of them went to kibbutzim where they worked for several weeks or months.
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