Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1937-08-01 · 8.1937 · p. Seite 39

— 39 — housekeeping for the Rambdm and Nehemia groups, with gardeners in Kiryat Bialik. A new feature added to the system during the period under review, was the utilization of the small-holding labour settlements. A group of fifty, in part direct from Germany and in part from the German refugees in France, was established in Nahalal. The structure of moshav life, fundamentally different from that of the kibbuts} necessitates changes in supervision and in the educational method. The boys and girls, instead of being constituted as a self-contained group, live each in the home of a farmer, sharing his life and the life of his children in every particular, and working side by side with him in the fields and in the farmyard and with his wife in the house. Such individual placement demands corresponding individual supervision. The studies in language, history, geography and the sciences connected with the branches of farming work are conducted in special classes by the village teachers. The opportunity for a social life had to be supplied. This purpose was ef fected by the erection of a building planned for the benefit of the hours of instruction and the hours of relaxation, school and club house combined. A second group of thirty has been settled similarly in the Mizrahi settlement of Sede Ya'aqov. The arrangements here differ from those at Nahalal in that the central building serves as a dormitory as well, the homes in the young Moshav, in spite of its healthy progress, not yet being adapted to the accommodation of persons outside the immediate family circle. Thus in Sede Ya'aqov the members of the Group work with the individual farmers, and live and are educated and carry on their social life as a group in a home of their own under the supervision of a leader. Arrangements are under way for the utilisation of additional Moshavim. Social centres have already been erected in Kfar Yehoshua and Kfar Yehezkel, each of which has undertaken to train groups of fifty. The gravest difficulty encountered in placing the groups has been in respect of the sons and daughters of religious parents. Sede Ya'aqov, Beit Ze'irot Mizrahi and Kibbuts Rodges constitute the only organised possibilities. The two technical groups, Rambam and Nehemia, were a faute de mieux device resorted to in order to