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The Hebrew Scouts in Eretz Israel – Meir Dizengoff Scout Troops, Tel Aviv – Various Items - The Hebrew Scouts in Eretz Israel – Meir Dizengoff Scout Troops, Tel Aviv – four items belonging to a member of the movement. 1. Cloth badge: “Lapid Group, Dizengoff Troop” – embroidered in gold thread on a blue background with a red border and the group emblem depicting a flaming torch. 2. Printed Shanah Tovah greeting card: “May this year be a year of fulfillment of our people’s aspirations in the building of its land – its homeland, Eretz Israel” – The Hebrew Scouts Association in Eretz Israel, Meir Dizengoff Scout Troops. Sent to a female member of the movement, “Rubinstein, ” on Mount Carmel in Haifa. 3–4. Two membership cards of Gan Friedlin (Nos. 361 and 137), a member of the Tel Aviv Scout Troop – “HaMagen” age group, “Amelim” battalion. Dated 1951–1952. Both signed by the troop leader, H. Keller. The “Dizengoff” Troop of the Hebrew Scouts movement in Tel Aviv is one of the oldest, most prominent, and most influential troops in the history of the movement and the city. The troop developed from the scout battalion of the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium under the leadership of Baruch Ben-Yehuda, and was later named after Tel Aviv’s first mayor, Meir Dizengoff, who was one of the prominent patrons of the Scout movement in its early years. Throughout its many decades of activity, the troop served as a major educational and social center for the youth of central Tel Aviv, produced numerous leaders, cultural and intellectual figures, and military personnel, and was actively involved in national missions, defense activities, and pioneering endeavors from the British Mandate period to the present day. Overall condition: good.