Aliya

Goal:  To get the chanichim to think about:

            1-the challenges of Aliyah throughout history in different generations, from the time of Olei Bavel until today, and what lesson can be taken for our lives. 

            2-the specific hardships encountered by the immigrants detained in Atlit and why their situation was particularly difficult and historically important.

To learn some sources about the way the Torah expects us to live.

Learning how the Torah VaAvodah Ideology is a clear message from the TorahUnderstanding the need to live in

Israel in order to keep the ideology.

Think about what the ideal Yishuv should look likeClarify your values on the Hityashvut.See the dilemmas facing people living in

IsraelSee how you can affect your life more by living in

IsraelSee what a place planned by and for only Jewish people can be like.

Objective: The chanichim will realize the complexity and the different sides of the issue of who is a real Zionist. Namely, that an American sending money to support the State of Israel, though important, today may not be considered by everyone to be a real Zionist.

To explain and teach the chanachim the story of the Chalutzim and how they came to build the land of Israel.

To teach the Chanachim some background information about the early history of

Israel and immigrating to Israel.

To give the chanichim an experience which will help them comprehend what it is like to live in an oppressive society and remind them to appreciate their own freedom.

To discuss how

Israel should deal with the mass aliyah from the former

USSR,

Ethiopia… and how we must relate to new olim.

To teach about the struggles of the Ethiopian Aliya, and a little about Aliya in general.

To teach about the struggles of the Ethiopian Aliya, and a little about Aliya in general.

To learn together about Aliya. in this pages- about Abraham Avinu. How did Abraham leave him family and him homeland and went to a new land?! We learn from Abraham to trust and believe in ה' . When ה' says to Abraham to go to Eretz Israel. He does not ask any questions. He takes everything he owns and starts out walking to the Promised Land –that is how Abraham become the firs new immigrant to come to the Land of Israel. Abraham is our Father and we walk in his footsteps and we return to the Land of Israel. The land that ה' promised to Abraham and to all the Jews

To learn that each one of us is a part in a whole body that includes Am Yisrael in Eretz Yisrael. (And our goal is to keep the Torah)

To understand that if we don’t have any part of Am Yisrael or Eretz Yisrael then it’s as if we are missing a part of our own body.