Education and Youth Corps

The Israeli Education and Youth Corps (Hebrew: חיל החינוך והנוער, Heil HaHinuh VeHaNo'ar) is the IDF Manpower Directorate corps responsible for the education of soldiers and commanders in Israel's military. It is designed to instruct and develop national values among the troops.

Goal and designation

According to former Chief Education Officer Avner Shalev, the aims of the education system in the IDF are to increase the motivation and morale of the troops and units. This is achieved by introducing cultural activities into the lives of soldiers, teaching them about the country and its values—both national and universal—as well as by teaching them about the nature of their duties as soldiers and citizens of the state.[1]

Structure

The Education and Youth Corps is divided into two main brigades - the Magen division and the education division - as well as 6 independent units directly subordinate to the Chief Education Officer:

Magen division

The Magen (an abbreviation for Morot-Hayalot (teacher soldiers), Gadna and Nahal), comprises four IDF education programs:

Mihve Alon, a training base for new immigrants not proficient in the Hebrew language, is also subordinate to the Magen division.

Education division

The education division serves as the professional guide for the other units of the corps, and of the IDF in general. It is divided into 6 branches:

Education and youth training base

The Education and youth training base, or by its name Sha'arei Avraham (Abraham's gates) was built near the Re'em Junction in the Lachish Valley near Kiryat Mal'akhi.

Many of the soldiers in various roles in the Education Corps get their training in the Youth Education Training Base.

Among these roles:

  1. Mashakit Hod מש"קית הו"ד - teaching and command NCO
  2. Madan Merhav and Basis מד"ן מרחב ובסיס - a youth guide in the base and region
  3. Mashakit Hinukh מש"קית חינוך - education NCO
  4. Mashakit Aliya מש"קית עלייה - immigration NCO
  5. Military ensemble
  6. Museum guides

Insignia

Education and Youth Corps logo

The emblem of the Education and Youth Corps is composed of four stripes integrating into one flame.

Three of them (different shades of blue) represent the three different centers of the corps and the fourth (colored white) represents the headquarters of the corps.

Chief officers

NameYears as chief officerComments
Lieutenant Colonel Yosef Karib 1948–1950  
Colonel Aharon Ze'ev 1950–1963  
Colonel Mordechai Bar-On 1963–1968 former Knesset member
Brigadier General Yitzhak Arad 1968–1972 Director of Yad Vashem, 1972 - 1993
Brigadier General Shaul Givoli 1972–1975  
Brigadier General Amir Betsal'el 1975–1977  
Brigadier General Avner Shalev 1977–1979 current Director of Yad Vashem
Brigadier General Avraham Zohar 1979–1982  
Brigadier General Josef Eldar 1982–1985  
Brigadier General Nehemya Dagan 1985–1988  
Brigadier General Ehud Gross 1988–1991  
Brigadier General Shalom Ben Moshe 1991–1995  
Brigadier General Evrham Asha'hal 1995–1997  
Brigadier General Ran Glika 1997–1999  
Major General Elazar Stern 1999–2004 later, also head of the Human Resources Directorate
Brigadier General Ilan Harari 2004–2007  
Brigadier General Eli Shermeister 2007–2013  
Brigadier General Avner Paz Tzuk 2013–

See also

References

  1. Shalev, Avner (1982). "Goal of Education in the IDF". In Shif, Yehuda. IDF in Its Corps: Army and Security Encyclopedia. Volume 12. Revivim Publishing. p. 151.

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