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We do not yet hve much information on Israeli schools. We have found some images, but most do not identify the school. And we have very little other informtion about the schools. We do note Ben Shemen Youth Village, an agricultural boarding school near the village of Ben Sheman in central Israel fonded in 1927. Agricultural training was very importnt to the Zionist movement. It was oopened on land provided by the Hadid factory. Siegfried Lehman was the moving force behind the creation iof the school. The purpose was to inbue children with a Zionist ethic, teach them agricultural skills, and install a sence of responsibility. The school's first students were from Kaunas in Lithuania. Very few Lithuanian Jews would survive the Holocaust unless they got out of the country before World War II. At the time that the fisht fir independenve began, there were about 1,000 students (1947). [Jewish National Fund, p. 16.] Ben Sheiman was an isolated village and became difficult to supply. A grouo of 11 youths were killed in one effiort to supply the school. The children were evacuated for safety reasons. The school continues to operate today. There are both boarders and day students. Shimon Peres was a garaduate.
Jewish National Fund. Jewish Villages in Israel (Jerusalem: Hamadpis Liphshitz Press: 1949)
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