Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed youth movement was founded in 1924 by youth who organized as a trade union to protect their rights as working youth.
It currently operates in more than 700 kinin (chapters) throughout the country.
The principle – that our home is open to every girl and boy, was already set forth at the outset of the Histadrut Hanoar Haoved (Federation of Working Youth). The youth movement remains open to all youth who want to be members, regardless of their social and cultural identity. Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed currently brings together tens of thousands of youth from all strata and echelons of Israeli society. Every member participates in youth movement activities suited to their special needs and cultural heritage, in the spirit of the environment in which they grew up.
Histadrut Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed (Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed Federation) operates among Jews, Arabs and Druze alike.
The youth movement is comprised of several activity divisions: the city ken (chapter), the kibbutz ken; the moshavim division (moshav refers to a type of cooperative agricultural community); the Arab ken; the Druze ken; and the mehadshim (renewers) – counselors of the Haigud Hamiktzoi Lenoar - Youth Trade Union.
The Dror Yisrael movement was founded in 2006 as a social, educational, collaborative movement. Dror Israel is the parent movement of three movements related to one educational center - the Educational Center for Cooperative Renewal - and they are: Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed, the bogrim (graduates) movement – Merhav (acronym for renewers of the idea of the pioneer in Israel), and the cooperative-mission oriented community of the Kibbutzim of the Groups.
Every Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed member can choose to continue their membership in the youth movement in one of the continuing magshimim (realizing) frameworks. These graduates continue on to the havat hahachshara track (a Service Year track) in which they experience living in a sovereign and cooperative peer-group and taking responsibility for youth movement and national missions. At the end of this year the members of the garin (refers to a broad group comprised of several small groups) do their army service in the Nahal track (a unique track that includes IDF service in the Nahal Brigade as a group after the Service Year) and then take part in the national mission period, in which the garin members engage in educating youth in neighborhoods and development towns.
Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed graduates can also find their place in the Thirteenth Year known as garinei Oded (the Oded group refers to the chapters in the moshavim).
Youth movement graduates in the Arab and Druze chapters who do not enlist in the IDF volunteer as magshimim (realizers) and as pioneers of the notion of a social and volunteering mission in Arab and Druze society in Israel.
