Gordonia-Maccabi Ha-Zair Badge and member card #1 of Arie Tishler/ Tyszler 1946

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Gordonia-Maccabi Ha-Zair. Badge and member card #1 of Arie Tishler (Tyszler) 1946 Lodz
Teudat ha-mityatsev le-sherut ha-am, 20.6.1948 - of Arie Tishler (Keren)
And 2 symbols (ribbons) of Nahal
1. Member card of Histadrut Gordonia Maccabi HaTza'ir, #1,
Issued to Arie Tishler (Tyszler) on 23.VIII. 1946 with original badge of Gordonia,
Inscriptions and cachets in Polish and Hebrew,
Size: 11 x 7.8 cm,
Tear to bottom of spine.
2. Teudat ha-mityatsev le-sherut ha-am, 20.6.1948 of Arie Keren (Tishler)
He changed his name in Israel from Tishler to Keren
(A certificate for the service of the people),
Size: 12 x 8 cm
3. 2 symbols (ribbons) of “Nahal brigade” IDF Zahal
Size: 8.2 x 6.2 cm.
The Nahal Brigade was founded in 1948 by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion as a program that combined the military service and the establishment of new agricultural communities. The goal of the “Nahal garinim” (small groups of community service-based soldiers) was to supply the IDF with soldiers while providing the basic needs for the founding of kibbutzim and new communities.
Gordonia was a Zionist youth movement. The movement's doctrines were based on the beliefs of Aaron David Gordon, i.e. the redemtion of Eretz Yisrael and the Jewish People through manual labor and the revival of the Hebrew language. In Gordonia the cadets learned Hebrew and the graduates organized themselves into training groups pending aliyah to the Holy Land.
Founded in 1925 in Poland, the movement promoted aliyah to kibbutzim in Mandate Palestine during the inter-war period. These pioneering initiatives were crucial in the development of the kibbutz movement in Palestine and the state of Israel as a whole.
Being established after many of the other socialist Zionist movements, Gordonia, in its early years struggled existentially. Emerging from ideological crisis, Gordonia was seen as a reaction against what was percieved as the "fatal errors" of movements such as the Hashomer Hatzair, whom they viewed as adopting ‘foreign ideals’ (e.g. Marxism), which threatened to divert attention from the important historical pioneering task. Gordonia saw itself as the pioneering youth movement of the Jewish masses – rejecting theoretical ideals of socialism and romanticism in favour of practical pioneering as embodied in Gordon himself. The principal distinction between Gordonia and the other movements was its decision not to engage in political activities, in alignment with the philosophies of their figurehead.
The United States branch of Gordonia was small and largely based in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore and Dallas areas, with only one summer camp, Moshava, near Annapolis. The group merged with the Labor Zionist youth movement Habonim Dror in April 1938.
The "Maccabi youth movement" (HaMaccabi HaTza'ir) is a Zionist youth movement established during the international convention of the Maccabi organization in Prague, Czech Republic in 1929. As the Maccabi movement is involved with promoting physical activity and sports among the Jewish people, the Maccabi youth movement was designated to focus on the physical education of the young generation.
Nahal (Hebrew:
נח"ל
) (acronym of Noar Halutzi Lohem, lit. Fighting Pioneer Youth) refers to a paramilitary Israel Defense Forces program that combines military service and the establishment of agricultural settlements, often in peripheral areas.
In 1948, a gar'in (core group) of Jewish pioneers wrote to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion requesting that members be allowed to do their military service as a group rather than being split up into different units at random. In response to this letter, Ben-Gurion created the Nahal program, which combined military service and farming.
Some 108 kibbutzim and agricultural settlements were established by the Nahal, many of them on Israel's borders. Nahal settlements in the Jordan Valley and the Arabah played an important role in Jordan's decision not to join the other Arab countries in attacking Israel during the Yom Kippur War