Community Corner
40 YEARS LATER: Personal Reflections on Volunteering in Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War with Yoel Magid
In
October 1973, inspired by the Yom Kippur War, Yoel Magid left his teaching
position at Rutgers to volunteer in Israel for six months. Based on his
contemporaneous diary, letters, newspaper articles, as well as the stories of
other young Americans he met in Israel,
he will share the impact of Israel
and Israelis, kibbutz and war on his life.
Yoel
Magid recently retired as WRT’s executive director. He lived 25 years on
Kibbutz Be'eri, near the Gaza
strip, served as General Secretary (like a mayor) of the kibbutz and consulted
to other kibbutzim. He has written extensively about kibbutz life and served as
international coordinator of a Zionist youth movement. He holds a doctorate in metaphysical
poetry from Columbia
University.
This
morning is hosted by WRT’s Israel Engagement Team and the Men’s Club