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HaKfar HaYarok

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HaKfar HaYarok (Hebrew: הכפר הירוק; lit. "the Green Village") is a youth village in Israel, located south of the city of Ramat HaSharon.

Name

Gershon Zak, the founder of the village, called it in 1950 "Green Village", without a definite article, with the intention to name it after David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973), whose original name was Gryn or Grün, lit. "green" in Yiddish or German. However, many people did not understand the message contained in the name, and over the years a definite article became added to the institution. Another 20 years later, once the death of Israel's third Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol (1895–1969), occurred before that of the older Ben-Gurion, "the green village" was called after him, becoming since "The Levi Eshkol Green Village".[dubious – discuss]

History

The village was founded by Gershon Zak in 1950 and originally was an agricultural village for immigrants. In 1986 Zak, together with HaKfar HaYarok, won the prestigious Israel Prize for lifetime achievement to education.[1]

A third of the students at Kfar Hayarok are boarding school students from deprived socioeconomic backgrounds. Other students commute from communities in the center of the country, attracted by special study courses such as an educational track taught in English, veterinary studies and an arts program.[2]

Today, the village has close to 1,200 students, from ages 12 to 20 (both residential students and external students). Many teachers on the staff make their permanent home on the campus of the village. Each year a group of recent high school graduates doing "Shnat Sherut" volunteer service prior to their IDF induction, come to live in the village as program counselors for the residential students.

HaKfar HaYarok took steps, in 2004, towards becoming an experimental youth village, with the support of the Ministry of Education. This program is based on the educational precepts of humane and democratic education, tolerance, acceptance of the environment, and connection to the land.

Schools

Within the village there is an anthroposophical school: the Waldorf Urim school, which houses a teacher training seminary and a kindergarten that operates according to the Waldorf (or Steiner) method.

The college offers one-year and two-year courses.

The Junior High School, which includes 7th, 8th Grade Mofet Science Classes, is intended for highly motivated students with scientific orientation. The program includes classes in mathematics, chemistry or biology, computers, chess, English and Russian or French. The Mofet section prepares students for matriculation exams in the 10th and 11th grades, enabling them to start their higher education during the 11th-12th grades.

The high school offers a unique program called "Manhigut" ("leadership"), that emphasizes the less scientific more humanic classes.

The Junior High School also offers a 7th and 9th Grade Life Science program, which focuses on biology and animal behavior.

The high-school is one of the most advanced of its kind, incorporating advanced teaching methods and following the "22 Project" framework, using demonstrates alternative methods of teaching and student assessment. The school offers various majors in life-sciences, agriculture, music, multimedia, fashion design, computer-aided vehicle diagnostics, electronics, and information systems.

In partnership with the Gifted Students Department of the Ministry of Education, HaKfar HaYarok offers a special program for gifted students. To be accepted, students are first evaluated by the Karni Institute in Kfar Saba.

Since 2014, the village has housed an international boarding school called Eastern Mediterranean International School (EMIS) with students from more than 40 countries who take the IB (International Baccalaureate). There are approximately 140 students enrolled in year 1 and year 2 of the IB programme.

Notable alumni

Yaron London
  • Yaron London (born 1940), media personality, journalist, actor, and songwriter
  • Micha Ullman (born 1939), sculptor and art professor
  • Micha Tomkiewicz (born 1939), scientist, writer and professor
  • Yisrael Poliakov (1941 - 2007), comedian, singer and actor, member of the "Pale-Face Trackers" (Gashashim) ensemble.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1986 (in Hebrew)". Retrieved 2009-07-07.
  2. ^ Cities accuse Kfar Hayarok of teenage 'brain drain', Haaretz

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