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The Histadrut ha - ha - No'ar Owed we- ha - Lomed (Hebrew הסתדרות הנוער העובד והלומד, German Federation of working and student youth ), in short: No'al (Hebrew נוע"ל ) is a Israeli youth association. He is a sister movement of the Ha - Bonim Dror, a movement of Zionut Sozialistit (Hebrew ציונות סוציאליסטית, Socialist Zionists ).

History

The organization was founded on October 17, 1924, was associated with the Histadrut. Her first name was ha - ha - No'ar Owed (Hebrew " הנוֹעַר העוֹבֵד, dt The working youth ). In its political line, she was influenced by the German Social Democrats and of the British Fabian Society. Joined in 1959 ha -No 'ar ha - Owed along with the supported primarily by student movement ha - ha - Tnua Me'uchedet (Hebrew התְּנוּעָה המְאוּחֶדֶת, dt the combined movement). the name of the association has since become the Histadrut ha - ha - No'ar Owed we- ha - Lomed. , the members were after the army service particularly active in the kibbutz movement and stood out as a kibbutz founders.

With the decline of the kibbutz movement in the 1990s, the association expanded its sphere of influence. So henceforth formed the " Bogrim " ( " Graduates of the movement" ) and small urban communities and were engaged and socially active especially in education. Today about 1000 Bogrim live in small communities in cities and kibbutzim and work within Israeli society for the most part in youth work.

Because of their roots in Poland founded in 1915, active in the 1920s and 1930s in several European countries Zionist youth movement Dror No'al and Tnuat Bogrim are sometimes (Eng. movement of Bogrim ) as a " movement of Dror - Israel " means.

Members

No'al counts about 120,000 members. This No'al is the largest youth organization in Israel. In the past decade the number of members has increased significantly, in 1998 it was still at 80,000. Some of its members were Knesset, Prime Minister and President, such as Ra'anan Cohen, Ephraim Katzir, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Moshe Yaalon. Importantly, the movement is also in that they - what is the exception rather than the rule in Israel - especially in the chapters in Galilee comparatively large number of Arab and Druze members counts.

International cooperation

The Histadrut ha - ha - No'ar Owed we- ha - Lomed heard as one of two organizations the umbrella organization International Falcon Movement - Socialist Educational International ( International Falk Movement - Socialist Education International ) on. She is a partner in the exchange program of the state government of North Rhine -Westphalia to meet and exchange of young people with Israel.