HeHalutz

HeHalutz or Hechalutz (Hebrew:החלוץ‎, lit. The Pioneer) was an association of Jewish youth whose aim was to train its members to settle in the Land of Israel; it became an umbrella organization of the pioneering Zionist youth movements.

The precursor of HeHalutz was originally a spontaneous, but loose affiliation of Lovers of Zion in the 1880s. The first organisations to actually bear the name HeHalutz were founded by Eliezer Joffe in America in 1905, and about the same time in Russia.