Habonim Dror

Habonim Dror (alt. Dror Habonim translation:The builders - Freedom) is a Socialist-Zionist youth movement formed by the merger in 1980 of the Habonim and Dror youth movements.

Ideology

Like other movements, Habonim Dror is founded on a set of ideological principles which its members ideally hold in common and strive towards. Although each branch of the movement around the world composes and reviews its own set of principles, Habonim internationally believes in:

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• Zionism – the belief in the state of Israel and the return to it
• Judaism – primarily from a cultural perspective
• Socialism – working for collective good through communal living; equality and social justice
• Actualisation (Hagshama) and Pioneering – acting out one's beliefs
• Social Justice – acting in the a new social order based on the principals of self-determination, individual freedom, political democracy, and cooperative economics, the equality of all people and the equality of human value

Habonim Dror's semel (emblem) comprises a wheat sheaf in a star of David, symbolising the roots of the organisation in Labour Zionism and in building the Kibbutz movement.

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