Habonim Dror is a Socialist Zionist Culturally Jewish youth movement that has been at the forefront of Jewish education for over 75 years. Habonim “The builders” was created in 1929 as the brainchild of Wellesley Aron to give Jewish children a strong grounding in Judaism and the importance of Israel as a focus for the Jewish world.

Chaverim of Habonim went on to be major contributors to the Labour Zionist movement establishing kibbutzim attracting the likes of Teddy Kollek as a shaliach. Dror “freedom” was created in 1915 as the secular pioneers of Russian Zionism. Just under 30 years later they found themselves on the frontline of the struggle in the Warsaw ghetto and tragically many members died fighting for Dror.

In 1980 the movements united and “The builders of freedom” was formed. Today Habonim Dror has
members in over 20 countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe and still holds true to the aims and
values of educating and inspiring Jewish youth that have been at the core of the movement
since its conception. Our activities reflect these ambitions from our summer and winter
machanot “camps”, to our programmes in Israel which are designed to revitalise the chalutznik
“pioneering” spirit which helped build Eretz Yisrael. Habonim Dror is proud of its heritage and
hopes that we can continue to inspire for another 75 years and beyond.

Habonim Dror runs annual residential winter and summer camps for ages 10 – 16, as well as
weekly Sunday meetings in Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Oxford and London.