The strategic educational venture, which seems like a blast from the past in the 21st-century world of high-tech and artificial intelligence, will be the seventh in a network of agricultural high schools to have opened in the last decade nationwide. Two locations near the Israeli border with Gaza were inaugurated following the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in the south on Oct. 7, 2023, after a generation when it seemed like old-fashioned agricultural work was quickly going out of vogue.
“We are bringing back the spirit and the meaning of the pioneers,” Yizhar Barak, 50, a farmer turned educator who will serve as the principal of the Adam V’Adama (Hebrew for “Leaders of the Land”) School at Kibbutz Yiron, told JNS. “We are revitalizing this border region.”
The Israeli agricultural community, just half a mile from Lebanon, where the new agricultural boarding school will be inaugurated in September, was evacuated for nearly a year and a half after Oct. 8, the day after the atrocities in the south and when Hezbollah to the north bombarded Israel with rockets and missiles for more than a year. (Ed note: I understand that in the Golan Heights, where there is a cooler climate, they have some very nice apple orchards.) (Read More)
