ABSTRACT
‘We young people now need to take a decision. It’s up to us, the youth,’ the chair of the Dutch Zionist League, Jaap van Amerongen, impressed upon young Jews at their Convention in Soest in an emotional speech. Whereas older people often go back on earlier decisions, young people must remain faithful to the fire of revolution; they must not just talk about emigrating to Israel but actually do it. ‘He observed that for some of us life would be easier in Eretz Yisrael, but for many of us harder. Still, our decision must not depend upon that, because there was only one way.’
