Uses of Work

Uses of work:

We really believe that treating a theme so central on Israel as the army and its influence on people’s life is, for itself, a reason to research it and try to find an answer that can better help people to understand the phenomena of the social changes on the Israeli society.

As educators, we feel that is our duty to know the influences of the experiences on the life of our chanichim in their formation, and, therefore, be able to work upon it in order to best educate and help them in the findings of what they really are and believe. These investigation can be useful for the young people of the tnuot noar(youth groups), whose chanichim will surely join the army in few years and will be deeply influenced by it. An educational program can be designed to best help them prepare for experiences they will be thru and so, react to them in a better way, most human, with the strengthening of their values, because is trough the values we bring with us that we should see the experiences in our life, and not trough the values of other people or institutions, and that’s a role the school can’t clearly fulfill (as the school work on the children to see the army as something big and marvelous, of which is an honor to be, not only a part but also a field combatant).

As Zionist movements, we educate for aliah. Our role as madrichim is to show Israeli society in its varied faces to our chanichim, to show them the reality of our nation as people and how we can best work to improve it once we are there. Other use of our investigation is to show our chanichim the influence of the army in people`s life and also in the life of a Ole Chadash (as we see the service as a choice to them, because they can immigrate under or over the age of service).