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HASHOMER HATZAIR CELEBRATES 90TH ANNIVERSARY: YEARLONG ACTIVITIES INCLUDE SHOMRIAH AND MARCH OF THE LIVING TO POLAND
 Hashomer Hatzair members on hachshara preparation year in Israel The Hashomer Hatzair youth movement is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. The movement operates in Israel and throughout the Jewish world, with 41 branches and centers of activity in 19 countries. Public events will be held for movement members and graduates of all ages in Israel and abroad during the year. Hashomer Hatzair is the oldest youth movement in the Diaspora that deals with Jewish-Zionist education as well as settlement, security, culture, education, and society in Israel. During the year's events, contact will be renewed with graduates; joint hikes will be held for members and graduates; meetings will be held in communities in which the movement is active; and preparations will be made for a five-day central event -- the 9th Shomriah that will take place at the end of July or early August. Tens of thousands of movement graduates set up 89 kibbutzim from Dan in the North to Samar in the Arava. The movement has taken active part in the central events of Jewish life in the 20th century as well as the annual "March of the Living" to Poland in which some 200 graduates from throughout the world participate. Some 250 movement members from Israel and abroad will take part in the March of the Living this year, to mark the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto revolt, and ceremonies will take place at Rapaport Square and in Mila 28 (the bunker where members of the Jewish fighting organization and their commander Mordechai Anilewicz met their deaths) in Warsaw.
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