Goals of Membership
The movement aims that each member aspires to the following goals:
- A movement graduate who sees the human being and his happiness as the central foundation of his creation and lives by this belief.
- A movement graduate who stands for democratic and socialist principles.
- A movement graduate who sees in the Jewish tradition a source of inspiration and influence, not a source of authority.
- A movement graduate whose own responsibility and criticism are the foundations of his life conception and life-style's consolidation.
- A movement graduate who bases his material and cultural existence on his own creation.
- A movement graduate who is involved and active in social changing processes led by his beliefs and concepts.
- A movement graduate whose ambition is to live in the state of Israel and takes part in its defense and building.
- A movement graduate whose ambition is to live in a Kibbutz or in any other socialist and cooperative way of living.
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