Just ahead of the Shavuot holiday, the “Bikkurim Conference,” which serves as the second youth conference of Hashomer Hachadash Youth, opened with hundreds of participants from the organization’s various programs spread throughout the Gaza Envelope region, building landscaped seating and gathering areas alongside stories of heroism commemorating fallen Israelis.
Founder and CEO of Hashomer Hachadash, Yoel Zilberman, said, “With great excitement, and after several months of preparation, we are opening our second youth conference with a meaningful and unique activity led by Hashomer Youth. The idea to establish these landscaped areas and seating benches was born from a group of teenagers in Hashomer Hachadash Youth, who initiated this emotional, important, and unique project in which all of the organization’s boys and girls are now taking part.
“Our youth are extraordinary. They are the future generation of leaders in Israel for the coming decades. Just as you see them today in the Gaza Envelope, tomorrow you will meet them in Kiryat Shmona, the Golan Heights, or the Jordan Valley.”
During the conference, the boys and girls of Hashomer Hachadash Youth and the Adam Ve’adama network are presenting agricultural produce that they cultivated and prepared themselves, continuing the organization’s longstanding Shavuot tradition.