The
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
i Education and Youth Corps ( he, חיל החינוך והנוער, ''Heil HaHinuh VeHaNo'ar'') is the
IDF
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Defence forces
* Irish Defence Forces
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*Iceland Defense Force, of the US Armed Forces, 1951-2006
* Indian Defence Force, a part-time force, 1917
Organizations
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Manpower Directorate
The Israeli Personnel Directorate (, ''Agaf Koakh Adam'', abbreviated to AKA), formerly called the Manpower Directorate and the Human Resources Directorate, is the Israel Defense Forces body that holds responsibility for planning and coordination ...
corps responsible for the education of soldiers and commanders in
Israel's military. It is designed to instruct and develop national values among the troops.
Goal and designation
According to former Chief Education Officer
Avner Shalev
Avner Shalev he, אבנר שלו; born 1939) was the chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate of The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority from 1993 to 2021.
Life course
Service in the IDF
From 1956 through 1980, Shalev served in t ...
, the aims of the education system in the IDF are to increase the motivation and morale of the troops and units. This is achieved by introducing cultural activities into the lives of soldiers, teaching them about the country and its values—both national and universal—as well as by teaching them about the nature of their duties as soldiers and citizens of the state.
Structure
The Education and Youth Corps is divided into two main brigades - the ''Magen'' division and the education division - as well as 6 independent units directly subordinate to the Chief Education Officer:
*The Jerusalem College
*Planning and organization branch
*Education and youth
training base (, ''Bahad HaHinukh VeHaNo'ar'')
*The School for Leadership (, ''Beit HaSefer LeManhigut'', abbr. ''Bislam'')
*The army weekly magazine ''
Bamahane
''Bamahane'' (also ''BaMahane'', he, במחנה, ''lit.'' in the base camp) was a Hebrew-language weekly magazine published by the Israel Defense Forces. It was first published in December 1934 by the Haganah and was published as a weekly until D ...
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*
Israeli Army Radio (, ''Galei Tzahal'', abbr. ''Galatz'')
Magen division
The ''Magen'' (an abbreviation for ''Morot-Hayalot'' (teacher soldiers), ''Makam'', ''
Gadna'' and ''
Nahal''), comprises four IDF education programs:
*''Mak'am'' (an abbreviation for ''Merkaz Kidum Ukhlusiyot Meyuhadot'' - Center for the Advancement of Special Population Groups), a program initiated by
Rafael Eitan
Rafael "Raful" Eitan ( he, רפאל "רפול" איתן, born 11 January 1929 – 23 November 2004) was an Israeli general, former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (Ramatkal) and later a politician, a Knesset member, and government m ...
to call up and support soldiers who would otherwise not be called up, such as those with serious educational deficiencies (lack of compulsory education), long criminal histories, etc. These are termed 'adaptation problems' in the IDF, and those with a rating of 40-60 are considered ''Mak'am'' youth. The ''Mak'am'' base is called Havat HaShomer and located in the north of the country, and trains those ''Mak'am'' youth with the most serious problems.
*Teacher soldiers, a program to train soldiers to become teachers in the civilian sector.
*Gadna, short paramilitary training programs for high school youth. The Gadna program has 3 such training bases - Tzalmon in the north, Ju'ara in the center, and Sde Boker in the south of the country.
*
Nahal Nucleus (, ''Gar'in Nahal''), another pre-military-age program.
Mihve Alon, a training base for new immigrants not proficient in the Hebrew language, is also subordinate to the ''Magen'' division.
Education division
The education division serves as the professional guide for the other units of the corps, and of the IDF in general. It is divided into 6 branches:
*''Mak'am'' branch
*Education and
Hasbara branch
*Culture branch
*
Aliyah
Aliyah (, ; he, עֲלִיָּה ''ʿălīyyā'', ) is the immigration of Jews from Jewish diaspora, the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel, which is in the modern era chiefly represented by the Israel, State of Israel ...
branch
*Arm and corps branch
*''Moriah'' branch
Education and youth training base
The Education and youth training base, or by its name ''Sha'arei Avraham'' (Abraham's gates) was built near the Re'em Junction in the Lachish Valley near
Kiryat Mal'akhi.
Many of the soldiers in various roles in the Education Corps get their training in the Youth Education Training Base.
Among these roles:
#Mashakit Hod מש"קית הו"ד - teaching and command NCO
#Madan Merhav and Basis מד"ן מרחב ובסיס - a youth guide in the base and region
#Mashakit Hinukh מש"קית חינוך - education NCO
#Mashakit Aliya מש"קית עלייה - immigration NCO
#Military ensemble
#Museum guides
*The teacher-soldiers who are also a part of the Education Corps don't get their training in the Youth Education Training Base, but in a civic seminary called Ramot Shapira, which is in
moshav
A moshav ( he, מוֹשָׁב, plural ', lit. ''settlement, village'') is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 an ...
Beit Meir, next to Jerusalem. this is a result of the "lending agreement" with the Education Minister of Israel.
Insignia
The emblem of the Education and Youth Corps is composed of four stripes integrating into one flame.
Three of them (different shades of blue) represent the three different centers of the corps and the fourth (colored white) represents the headquarters of the corps.
Chief officers
See also
*
Mechinat Rabin
The Rabin Pre-Military Academy (full name: המכינה הקדם-צבאית להכשרת מנהיגות חברתית ע"ש יצחק רבין; ''HaMekhina HaKdam-Tzva'it LeHakhsharat Manhigut Hevratit Al Shem Yitzhak Rabin''—The Pre-army Preparat ...
References
External links
Israel Defense Forces: Manpower Directorate*Adi Sherzer
Israeli Military Education: Historical Overview of a Unique Phenomenon (1941-2004) British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2021)
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