GORDONIA

Youth movement initially founded in 1923-24 in Galicia (Poland) and based on the tenets ofA.D.Gordon. It founded several newsettlementsand small kevutzot inPalestineand also sent members to help reinforce older settlements. In 1933, its settlements amalgamated with Hever Hakevutzot to form Hever Hakevutzot-Igud Gordonia, and in 1941, Gordonia merged with Maccabia Hatzair, which had developed as a Jewish scouting movement inGermanyand Czechoslovakia. In 1945, the movement united with part of Hamahanot Haolim to form Hatenua Hameuhedet, the General Movement of Student Pioneering Youth in the Land of Israel.