Leading and representing the Hashomer Hatzair movement worldwide - representation in national institutions, World Youth Movements Council, sending emissaries, ideological and educational coordination. Initiating and implementing Hashomer Hatzair activities worldwide through representation in national institutions, World Youth Movements Council, sending emissaries, ideological and educational coordination. Supporting local organizations and guiding them toward proper management of the movement, while creating connections between different organizations to ensure coherent and consistent activities throughout the world, educating Jewish youth in the diaspora and in Israel toward Zionist realization, including development and distribution of lesson plans and activities for all Hashomer Hatzair branches worldwide, developing educational programs and cultural projects for youth in Israel and the diaspora. Supporting local communities and promoting cultural and educational programs while seeking to empower them and provide them with tools to lead their own local cultural programs and projects, including: events marking the Jewish life cycle (holidays, circumcisions, Bar Mitzvahs, weddings), cultural events such as philosophy and thought evenings, activities promoting Jewish feminism in the diaspora, folk dancing and singing evenings, local and international music performances (contemporary Israeli culture performances in the diaspora), theater productions and more, creating a social and educational framework for youth planning to immigrate to Israel, including establishing partnerships with various projects in Israel aimed at immigrants such as absorption centers, special programs within existing academic institutions, employment centers for new immigrants, supporting integration in kibbutzim, pre-immigration and immigration seminars, partnership with Hashomer Hatzair alumni movement in Israel and more, supporting organization members in their first steps in Israel in absorption centers, settling in kibbutzim, finding employment and the like, promoting education, culture, science and sports, and establishing and managing educational institutions (kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools, adult education), operating cultural institutions (community center, cultural center hosting performances), promoting science activities (including gardens for sustainability development and research) and promoting sports institutions worldwide (training women and girls in countries where there is no organized women's sports activity), supporting and assisting in writing pedagogy for educational institutions worldwide guided by local organizations and encouraging organizations to establish cultural and educational, science and sports institutions as detailed above. Operating Hebrew language ulpanim by the organization and by organizations it supports. Distributing written media to promote the movement's values, and publishing history and philosophy books related to Hashomer Hatzair's work and values, researching Zionism and the Holocaust through local research institutes in various countries, connecting the research to local community needs and history. Initiating and implementing educational programs in the diaspora as well as trips to Poland from communities around the world and from members of the global movement in various programs in Israel, managing and maintaining youth centers and hostels in Israel and worldwide and establishing a network of youth clubs, after-school centers and movement bases worldwide, holding and organizing educational events, lectures, cultural performances, music and recreation to impart culture, knowledge and education to youth in Israel and worldwide, in the field of Hebrew, Jewish and Israeli culture, and taking action to promote Zionism and pluralistic Judaism in the world, supporting the publication of journals, books, printed materials and other publications in Israel and worldwide including online journalism, history books describing the movement's past in Israel and worldwide as well as philosophy books addressing the movement's ideology. Production of book publications by creating connections between writers, publishers and relevant donors.
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