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ROSH AMELIM
HANNAH ROME


Hannah Rome is thrilled to be spending her December holiday as Rosh Amelim. After spending a gap year living in Israel, she is now studying English and International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand. Habonim has provided her with a place where she feels completely at home. Her time in the movement has nurtured her growth and shaped her into the person she is today, and she credits a significant part of her personal development and critical thinking skills to the experiences she had on Habonim programmes. Hannah loves being a madricha and has learnt so much from Habonim channichim over the years. She can think of nothing more fun and exciting than Amelim Machaneh and can’t wait to spend three weeks going to the beach, dancing, eating ice bites, having fun, and making unforgettable memories!

S’GANIT ROSH AMELIM
TZIYONA COHEN



Tziyona’s first taste of Habo magic was as a teenager in Sollelim in 2018. Now even at the age of 21, she cannot imagine spending her December anywhere else. She was able to develop her most valued life skills from being surrounded by like-minded Jewish youth who all share the same Habo values and culture. She is in her last year of computer science and chemistry at UCT. She is excited to escape the labs and have fun in the sun with all her channichim this December as Rosh Sganit Amelim!

S’GAN ROSH AMELIM

ADAM LIEBERMAN



Adam’s journey with Habo magic began when he moved to Cape Town in 2015 and attended his first shtilim mini Mach, feeling like a stranger among a sea of new faces. Since then, he has returned every year, cherishing the chance to escape the pressures of real life and immerse himself in the camp experience. As a Kesem Maddie in 2022 and 2023, he found joy in connecting with channichim and creating unforgettable memories. Now studying bioinformatics and computational biology at Stellenbosch, he looks forward to another incredible December filled with sun, laughter, and the camaraderie of Habo.
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THE AMELIM EXPERIENCE

The Orange One

Amelim means ‘workers’ and this is relevant to this year group since, with their newly-found identity, Amelim works toward carving out their own space in Habo and achieving new heights.  

Amelim is a transformative year. This is the year when the educational syllabus starts to engage with the Channies’ individual identity and where we play a role in helping them explore themselves and who they want to be. Moreover, a great emphasis is also placed on developing the group’s shared identity. This is the theme for Amelim. Their machaneh is packed with fun, with projects like Survival Night and Movie Night, and also sentimental highlights like their Naming Ceremony, whereby the Shichvah receives their own unique international name which will stay with them throughout their Habonim careers. 


With their sense of identity comes a taste of independence and freedom. Amelim Channies are encouraged to explore themselves and the world around them on Machaneh with boundless freedom to discover exactly where and how they want to fit in it. Weather it’s through learning in enlightening Peulot, dancing at Havdalah, chilling on the beach with friends, or playing soccer or cricket or ultimate frisbee on our fields, you can trust that our Amelim Channichim are doing it all with a sense of introspection. At 14, it is imperative we help them through that process of figuring themselves out. At the same time, having a later bedtime, activities designed to be engaging, and ample freetime ensures that whatever conclusions they come to are authentically their own. This age is prime time for self discovery, growth, and fun, and we make sure that happens on our Machaneh!

NAMING CEREMONY

CRICKET ON KIKAR

AMELIM RUACH (SPIRIT)

SURVIVAL NIGHT

EXCITING PEULOT

YOUR HYPE MADDIES

MOVIE NIGHT RED CARPET

FUN IN FREETIME

DANCING WITH FRIENDS

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