Youth Aid Lists Zion Pioneers from Germany

Prospects for sending many Jewish boys and girls to Palestine are discussed in the report just issued by the Jewish Youth Aid. The report also lists the number of boys and girls the society has sent to the Holy Land since February, 1934.

So far, the report says, the Youth Aid has sent four groups to Palestine, the first consisting of sixty young people who went to Ain Harod in February, 1934; the second was a group of girls sent to the girls’ training farm of Madame Rachel Yanaith, the wife of Ben Zvi, chairman of the Vaad Leumi; the third group, consisting of twenty orthodox religious youths, went in May to Kibbutz Rodges; and the fourth, consisting of forty young people, went to Tel Josef at the end of June.

JOINTS WITH ORPHAN BODY

Reckoning on the basis of the 350 certificates issued for youth immigration to Palestine from Germany for the first year, another sixteen religious youths will be sent to the Technical School at Haifa, and twelve religious girls in the Home of the Mizrachi Women’s Organization will be sent to Jerusalem to train in housekeeping and gardening. A group of sixty non-religious youth will go to Dagania at the end of Autumn. Another twenty or thirty will be sent to Mishmar Haemek and Pardas Anna.

The selection of all these youth immigrants will be completed by the end of August. After that new groups will be organized to be sent to Palestine on certificates to be issued for the period May, 1934, to May, 1935. Seven hundred certificates are being asked for.

For the purpose of carrying on the joint financing of the work, the Youth Aid and the Committee for Religious Youth Emigration has joined with the Jewish Orphan Aid, which has founded in Palestine a branch of the Children’s Home Ahava.

Certificates within the youth emigration movement are available for young people between the completed ages of fifteen and seventeen.

TRAINING DISCUSSED

“The more difficult it becomes to find openings for training for our school-leaving youth and the sooner the youth wish to start training for Palestine, the more we shall have to take to the road of youth emigration,” the report says.

“We believe that it is a good thing to undertake settlement in Palestine between the ages of fifteen and seventeen. It is easier at this age to find ties with the country and the community than later, and settlement is less effort than with the older Chalutzim. More and more we shall have young people coming to us who have not yet been in any occupation, and wish to go straight from school to farm training. If the training can be carried out in Palestine itself, it provides the best guarantee of proper settlement. Chalutzim emigration will more and more develop along the lines of youth emigration,” the report concludes.