If any of your friends plan to sign up to camp, in order to make sure they do it and don’t miss out their place, you can leave their details here and we will contact them in the next couple of days. [contact-form]

For tickets please contact Daniel the Shaliach at 02082016661

(*for the seating chart scroll down this page)

(*please note you will have to register in order for us to track your order. Thank you!)

Join us now at the ZF 65 Gala Concert for Yom Ha’azmaut, the largest concert in Europe on Israel’s 65th birthday.

The concert will take place on Tuesday 16 April, 7.30 am at the Wembley Arena.

Ishtar with Albina

Ishtar is Israel’s lead singer of Alabina and has sold millions of records world wide.

Ivri Lider, one of the most successful Israeli musicians of his generation.

Chico, creator of the Gypsy Kings together with his band, the Gypsy’s.

and Israeli Youth Symphony Orchestra.

More acts including celebrity guest appearances will be announced soon.

By getting your tickets through us you will also support our Tour and Camp bursary funds. 20% of every ticket will go directly to our bursary fund to help bring more chanichim to our Israel Summer tour and Summer Machane.

Tickets: £20 (student tickets*), £25, £35, £50, £75, £125 VIP tickets & reception (Children under 12 – 50% off, children aged 12-16 – 20% off) – 20% of each ticket will go to FZY bursary fund.

To book tickets please call 02082016661

Event seating chart -

* The students tickets include the Students and Y.A after party.

The Address is:

Howell’s School
Park Street
Denbigh, LL16 3EN

Please arrive by 12pm, midday so that we have enough time to run through the tochnit and do a site tour before the chanichim arrive.

If you are coming to both weekends, please fill the above form in twice (once for each weekend).

Being the Machane director for FZY this year, I have focused my time and energy on making Machane the best it can possibly be. We feel honoured to tell you that FZY is going abroad for the first time. The numerous hours spent researching sites and locations have been truly worth it due to our success in finding Lavure.

With a new structure, Machane looks to be filled with a variety of fun activities. The structure also allows for an inclusive environment which is something I have personally put great importance on. Our goal is that all the chanichim not only enjoy themselves, but also feel part of the FZY family.

I am so excited to have you come along on this fantastic journey and can’t wait for you to see what Summer Machane 2013 is all about!
See you there!
Claire Pollard
Director of Machane

So, to break it down – we are now at literally: 60/60 between the right wing bloc (Religious and nationalist parties, i.e. Likud, Habayit Hayehudi) and centre-left wing bloc (Secular, Arab and democratic parties i.e. Labor, Yesh Atid, Hadash). This may all confuse you but as you know the political conversation in Israel is mostly 3 dimensional (and at times 4 or 5 dimensional). The parties divide between economic outlooks, religious outlooks and outlooks on security. Now here comes the interesting part. Who will build the coalition and what factors might play into this? But before we delve into conspiracies and extrapolations of personal and political matters, you may be asking yourself “Wait! Who are these Yesh Atid folks? And what is Habayit Heyehudi?” To answer, these are two new players in the game lead by extremely charismatic and perceivably strong people. Most of the parties are more of the same. Including “Ha’Tnua” party, which is Tzipi Livni with defectors from different parties who wish to stand up to Netanyahu. But Yesh Atid and Habayit Hayehudi are parties that are talking differently than most and consist of almost all new people to the political arena. They also bring about things to the political conversation that take Iran (Netanyahus main agenda) out of the picture. Habayit Hayehudi (“The Jewish Home”) is a religious-Zionist party, mostly representing the ideals of settlers and mostly they have to do with religion and the west bank. Naftali Bennet lead a campaign that talked mainly about two things:

• “Taking down the mechitzot “(partitions) within the Jewish people in Israel and creating a conversation between the secular public and the religious public.

• Annexation of Jewish held territories in the west bank (C territories).

Bennet is extremely charismatic, bright and secular looking. Making his appeal to the secular public very large (also, one of the main MK in the party is a secular women from Tel-Aviv). Bennet has experience in leading and working with politics. He began as a commander in Sayeret Matkal (The elite unit in the IDF) and served in the military for 20 years. He was the CEO of a high-tech company called Cyota that sold for 145 million dollar making a very wealthy individual. He was the CEO of Yesha (the council of Judea, Samaria and Gaza) and also the head of office for Benjamin Netanyahu as PM. He left the last job because of personal issues with the Netanyahu family, presumably with Sarah Netanyahu (the wife). He has what some might call “extreme views” however his young appeal and background made him very affable and put him in the spotlight of most news stories.

Yesh Atid (“There is a future”) is lead by Yair Lapid. Lapid is the son of Tommy Lapid who was the head of a party called Shinoi (“Change”). Both Tommy and Yair talked about what is dubbed “Equality of burdens”. The burden is a reference to serving in the military, paying taxes etc. which Haredi Jews are exempt from. This is one of the main subjects Lapid stressed in his campaign and which made him appealing to seculars that serve in the militairy. The other is middle class economy and creating a better future for Israel through developing the middle class. Don’t rush to conclusions, Lapid is overtly capitalist and one who takes the side of Netanyahu when it comes to free market economics. With that said, Lapid is a centrist in terms of security and has a mostly social agenda. The most notable thing about Lapid is that before becoming the hit of this year’s elections he was a news anchor and a columnist, much loved across Israel. He was very popular pre-elections and a lot of analysts attribute his success to the fact that people chose him out of personal liking rather than political thinking. Nevertheless, Lapid will now be a strong figure in Israeli politics and some even say he has a chance at being Prime Minister.

So these two parties became main players while Likud Beytenu dropped almost 14-15 seats from what was expected and Ha’Avod lost many voters, making Shelly Yechimovitz (head of Ha’avoda) less of a contender to be the next PM.

And now for the coalition building, the most Interesting part of the elections. There are many options on the table right now. Beginning with the less probable: Yair Lapid building a centre-left coalition, leaving Netanyahu out. This most likely will not happen because Lapid will rather sit in a government with Netanyahu and have major influence than lead a fragile government centre-left government. Netanyahu and Yechimovitz are now working tirelessly to get Lapid’s decision on what side of the bloc he will sit on. This will be the main thing to decide where the country will be heading.

In any constellation the important things to remember are these:

• Habayit Hayehudi will want to be in the government however personal matters might stall or halt this due to a past between Bennet and Netanyahu.

• Shas will want to be in the government, however because Lapid holds a lot of influence he may require them not to be in the government or virtually hold them back completely from any power in the coalition that will be formed.

• Yesh Atid will require a social agenda and one that involves taking away many privileges that Haredi Jews currently have.

• Ha’avoda may not join the coalition because Yechimovitz had promised not to, however if Ha’avoda wants to remain with a say in anything they may join the coalition

• Netanyahu wants a strong coalition with a small government. He may choose to form a fragile right wing government or a strong and wide centre-left government.

Hopefully we will a fruitful year in politics and all will be well! We may even go vote again soon, Nobody knows! Be sure to keep watching out for news. And if you have any questions you can contact me and I will be more than happy to answer!

To keep posted check this out

and to see who our new politicians are check out this article

So you have finally reached the stage of wanting to be an FZY camp leader wahoooooooooo!!! about time! (as if we didn’t know u were gonna)..

So what’s the Process

In order to be a camp leader there certain things you need to do.. and no, wax is not one of them…

1. Understand who can lead in our camp

First, to be an FZY camp leader you need to be 18 and over. So make sure that by the date camp starts you celebrate your sweet 18 party.

Second, this year camp is gonna be in the beautiful and hot southern part of France! That’s why you will need to have a valid passport. So if you don’t have one, that’s a great time to start the process of getting one.

Third, the dates for camp are the 29 July until the 8th of August. But! You need to know that if you want to lead camp with us, U’ll have to come both to the preparation day during May/June and to come to our Pre-camp Crazy week on 22-25 of July. So write it in ur calenders and be prepared to rumble.

2. Application forms and process

So basically the process is quite straight forward- once your form is complete you will then have a phone interview or one on one interview in person with one of us. That for us to  get to know each other better and found out what you expect from camp and what you can bring to camp (dance moves anyone?:) ).

Once a decision has been made (based on registration and other things)  you need to go through a medical form filling and CRB (police approval). Then we  will all go on the pre- camp (Chalutz) and then to leading the best summer of your life- CAMP! (good luck!)

3. Wait, so what again to do next?..

Let’s start with contact Claire (aka miss lovely doll) at drom@fzy.org.uk or at 0208-2016661. She’s waiting for your call..

Or fill this form and she’ll give ya a call
[contact-form]

So bring on the summer!

Can’t wait!!!!

We wanted to thank you all for being active participants at this year’s Veida and for making it such a successful one! We would like to thank everyone on the steering committee: Oli, Gilad, Rachel, Simon, Elliot, Abby,Georgina, Ed for all your hard work and dedication. With out each and every one of you this Veida just wouldn’t have been as meaningful, productive and FUN.

And now for the Mazkir spiel:

Veida is the ideological epicentre of the movement. Veida is designed to shake the foundations the movement is built on to reflect the composition of members within the movement. Veida gives members the opportunity to shape the movement and make a change for what they believe is the better. This year we saw the development of the Mazkirut into a smaller, more hands on governing body. Congratulations must go to Zoe Edelman, Hannah Gilmore, Georgina Sherman, Joshua Lipschitz and Joshua Goodman on their election to the Mazkirut.

Veida is also the point of year where the Social Chairs in each city are elected. The Netzigim are an essential part of the movement and have been elected to be representatives of the Bayit Team and the greater FZY community within their respected towns. In Leeds this year we have Zoe Edelman and Nicole Richer,Birminghamis the dynamic duo of Elliot Brown and Ed Tyler. Finally in Nottingham Josh Lipschitz and Nick Goldstein will taking up the post.

Events at Fzy are often judged on their numbers and are deemed successful if a certain number of people attend. This year Veida was not the biggest it has ever been. However this year Veida represented the movement from those who are yet to go on tour to those that are about to finish their journey. The inclusive nature of the week left me feeling exceptionally positive and having a Shabbat b’yachad made the seminar even more special. I want to thank everyone who came to Veida without you it would not have been the same. For all those who missed out – there is always next year.

“Veida 2012, it’s time for change, so let’s prepare. Show FZY just what you’ve got. Zolly will find you there, hey!”

Some of the changes that were made this year:

Giving everyone equal opportunities by providing a translator to anyone who is not understood (the Scottish)

Adding Tov Sde Dov to our FZY lexicon

What are some of the motions that failed this veida?

The Shifty Base motion

The Simon Golditch motion

The Tzedakah motion

You can see all the motions that were passed this Veida! Just open the veida motion folder at this link:

http://www.fzy.org.uk/fileshare/

So now that we brought back a lot of great memories from Veida it would be lovely to get some feedback from you guys! All you need to do is click on the link below and answer some questions.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9Q8CYFB

Going…Going…Gonged!