Havat HaNoar HaTzioni
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Havat HaNoar HaTzioni known in English as the Israel Goldstein Youth Village, is a youth village
Youth village
A youth village is a boarding school model first developed in Mandate Palestine in the 1930s to care for groups of children and teenagers fleeing the Nazis...

 and high school in Jerusalem, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

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Havat HaNoar HaTzioni was established in 1949 as a home for 40 Jewish orphans who lost their families in the Holocaust. It was named for Israel Goldstein
Israel Goldstein
Israel Goldstein was an American rabbi, author and Zionist leader. He was one of the founders of Brandeis University.Goldstein was the rabbi of Congregation B'nai Jeshurun in New York, the second oldest synagogue in the city, from 1918 until his immigration to Israel in 1960...

, a prominent rabbi and Zionist leader. Today the school has 400 students, many of them new immigrants.

In the summers, Havat HaNoar HaTzioni is one of the home bases of the Israel Ramah Seminar, a program affiliated with Camp Ramah
Camp Ramah
Camp Ramah is a network of Jewish summer camps affiliated with the Conservative Movement. The camps operate in the United States, Canada, and Israel. Ramah camps serve kosher food and are Shabbat-observant.-History:...

, a network of Jewish summer camps in North America.
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