Federation of Zionist Youth

The Federation of Zionist Youth (FZY) is Britain's oldest Jewish, Zionist, pluralist youth movement, founded in 1910.[1] It is affiliated with Young Judaea in the United States and the Hebrew Scouts movement in Israel. It runs weekly activities, political campaigns, year-long programmes and summer programmes for hundreds of young British Jews.

"FZY" redirects here. For the airport, see Oswego County Airport.

Ideologically, FZY's vision statement is: "The Jewish People, living in peace in the State of Israel as One Nation and as a Light Unto the Nations."

FZY's Jewish, Zionist, pluralist ideology is committed to four aims:

FZY Centenary Year
Official FZY logo for 100th Anniversary

2009/2010 was FZY's centenary year and the movement celebrated 100 years since its founding. To commemorate the year the movement chose a new logo[2] and organised a number of celebratory events.

Israel Tour

FZY is one of the UK's largest provider of Summer Israel Tours for post-GCSE teenagers. In Summer 2007 they took 480 teenagers to Israel on short term Summer programs.[3]

References
  1. "About FZY | The Federation of Zionist Youth «  FZY". www.fzy.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  2. https://www.thejc.com/community/community-news/fzy-voters-select-new-look-for-centenary-1.9783
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2009-12-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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