\nThe HeHalutz (Pioneer) Movement and Gdud HaAvoda (Labor Brigade)
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\nDuring the course of the Third Aliyah, more than 6000 young people came to the Land of Israel in the framework of the Pioneer Movement. Pioneer groups existed at the time of the Second Aliyah, however, during World War I, it became a mass movement. Pioneer groups sprang up in tens of cities and towns in Russia and Eastern Europe. Many of the Pioneer youth were trained in farming in Russia before coming to Israel. The Pioneers’ values included physical labor, realizing one’s own potential, Hebrew language and culture and guarding and defending the settlements in the Land of Israel. Their goal was not only to work the land, but to do all kinds of work. Josef Trumpeldor was the moving spirit behind the movement.
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\nDo you need a wheel? I am a wheel.
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\nWhat is a chalutz? Is he a worker only? No! The definition includes much more. The pioneers should be workers but that is not all. We shall need people who will be \u201ceverything\u201d \u2013 everything that Eretz Yisrael needs. A worker has his labor interests, a soldier his \u201cesprit de corps\u201d, a doctor and an engineer, their special inclinations. A generation of iron-men; iron from which you can forge everything the national machinery needs. You need a wheel? Here I am. A nail, a screw, a block? \u2013 here take me. You need a man to till the soil? \u2013 I\u2019m ready. A soldier? I am here. Policeman, doctor, lawyer, artist, teacher, water carrier? Here I am. I have no form. I have no psychology. I have no personal feeling, no name. I am a servant of Zion. Ready to do everything, not bound to do anything. I have only one aim \u2013 creation.”\u00a0 Josef Trumpeldor<\/p>\n<\/div>
\nHeHalutz (Pioneer Movement)
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HeHalutz was an international Zionist movement comprised of young Jews who had come together in order to make aliyah to the Land of Israel. It began with people coming together spontaneously in the 1880s. The organization continued to exist until the Holocaust.