What should habonim dror focus on?
The question that has arose for me since we have been here, and that is weather or not us as a movement we should return to our roots as a labour Zionist movement or carry on with our shift into Israeli society like we are doing. First of all it seems as though labour Zionism should have some sort of definition and that to me is the belief that we should come to Israel and work the land like our Zionist forefathers did before us. The dilemma that arises for me in this question is: what is more important? Labour Zionism possesses a massive importance to our movement as it was the start of our movement in Israel , creating kibbutzim like kfar Blum where it would be habonim drorniks working the land and being self sufficient off the land. This clearly worked at the time, shown by the massive kibbutz movement. Yet as times have gone on the aims and methods of our movement have shifted into modern day Israeli society into the irbutz community's and having an active role in shaping wider Israeli society. In my opinion I feel that returning to our roots possesses a big importance as it seems that all the education on the chalutzim is redundant without actualising on it. However I believe that there is no immediate need for us to act upon our labour Zionism but that there is a massive need for us to aim to shape Israeli society into a fairer more equal society. It seems as if we as a movement have moved into the direction of shaping the society we see has problems. And to me that is where we should stay and if anything have a greater focus on actively changing society in Israel.
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