Its been a busy few weeks on Boneh. The Workshoppers attended the Rabin Rally in Tel Aviv, visited the Diaspora Museum, learned around 1500 years of Jewish history, hiked Har Tavor, heard from a few guest educators and capped it off with a trip to Zichron Ya'akov today!
Every year, a rally is held in Kikar Rabin to honor Yitzak Rabin and remember his assassination during a rally for peace in 1995. Before the rally, the Workshoppers went through an exhibit about his life. They learned about his past as an important military figure, a Labor Party leader and his transformation into a leader in the peace process. You can read more about Rabin here.
The exhibit about Rabin's life.
This year, the theme of the rally was Israeli democracy, addressing the murder not as a random act of violence, but as an attack on a democratically mandated process. The rally was attended by a wide spectrum of Israeli youth movements, and Habonim was proud to take a role in the rally. And to meet up with some old friends.
Moshniks with former Moshava shlicha Maya Goren.
Next weekend, Workshop 63 will be at the Rabin Seminar. The seminar is an annual event held in conjunction with the Rabin Rally, and is a chance to have a more in depth look at the fractures within Israeli society at the time of the murder and its ongoing legacy. The Workshoppers will be at the seminar with the Australians, South Africans and New Zealanders that they met on Yam l'Yam.
The educational theme on Boneh this week was Early Zionism. In their shiurim, they covered the origins of Zionist thought in 19th century Europe, and today went to Zichron Ya'akov for a tour of a 1st Aliyah settlement. In the afternoon, they visited the Pioneer Settlement Museum at Kibbutz Yifat, which houses a recreation of 2nd Aliyah settlement.
They've also been plenty busy decorating their houses.
