Building Israel's future by bringing young people and lone soldiers to the Galilee

Forty-something years ago, when I was a student at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, there was a group of students who were part of a gar’in, a community that was planning to move to Israel together. Their base in Israel was going to be Kibbutz Hannaton, situated in the Galilee due east of Haifa and almost due south of Karmiel.

I didn’t join t…