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References
- "Amal in Retrospect" by Moshe Margalit in Adventures in Pioneering: Twenty-Five Years of Habonim Camping
- "Galil" by Daniel Isaacman in Adventures in Pioneering: Twenty-Five Years of Habonim Camping
Summer camps of Habonim Dror North America | ||
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