Gad Beck on joining He-halutz

(Audio) “For them I was a boy from outside. Why? I was visiting theaters, I was dancing, even ballet dancing. For such a group of pioneers it was impossible to believe this. Just in such a situation, political situation... I had never been in such a group, if there was not Hitler, this is clear. But I had no other way, I had to come with other people together, with these Jewish people together and the Zionist Jewish people together. (Cut) I was coming from another world, I was coming more from the world from theater, from culture, from [sigh].”

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