Eretz Israel Wanderers' Association" (AMAI) - the first organized travelers in Eretz Israel - a collection of rare items - the 1930s.
* Membership association card of the renowned author Ben Zion Luria (one of the founders of the Department of Biblical Studies, researcher of the Land of Israel and the Bible, and one of the first map drawers in Israel) 1934, signed by the association's chairman David Benbenishti and secretary M.D. Gaon. Luria joined the Israeli Wandering Association in 1927. Together with his Jerusalem friends David Benbenishti, Natan Shalem and Pinchas Cohen made long walking trips, including to Damascus and across the Jordan. On the card is the association's emblem, the drawing that appears inside the card - mountains of Eretz Israel and the Sea of Galilee in the design of N. Badrashi.
* 15 group photographs of the Wandering Association members from their travels around the country - 1920s and 1930s. On the back of some of the photographs is written the name of the place in handwriting: Wadi Umbarik, the water pool in Ein Para, Beit Horon Elyon, and more. Different sizes.
* "Impressions from the trip" - six stencil-printed pages describing a trip that took place before Passover to the Judean Desert area in which "about forty-five students and three teachers participated". The places and sites that the group visited were exposed to her eyes for the first time, and the writer is very excited to describe the different places. The hikers saw for the first time in their lives the Dead Sea, and the nearby ridges.
* Journalistic article by Dov Ganchovsky about the Wanderers' Association "It was not easy to be a wanderer in Eretz Israel."
The Wanderers' Association was a group of travelers who operated in Eretz Israel in the first half of the 20th century. In 1924, the first group was established in Jerusalem, which became nationwide in 1927. This group was founded by David Benbenishti (Israeli geographer and educator, winner of the Israel Prize in 1982), and was the first organized group to systematically tour the Land of Israel.
The wanderers made hiking trips throughout the Mandatory Land of Israel, as well as past the Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. In addition, there were weekly seminars and lectures. Some of the trips even served as camouflage for the "haganah" in their patrols and observations for the defense of the settlement. The events of 1936-1939 caused the cessation of the activities of the National Wanderers Association, but in Tel Aviv and Haifa the wanderers' activities continued to exist until the early 1950s.
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