Maccabi Hatzair

Maccabi Hatzair, also known as Young Maccabi or the Maccabi youth movement (Hebrew: המכבי הצעיר, HaMaccabi HaTza'ir), is a Zionist youth movement established during the international convention of the Maccabi World Union in Prague, Czech Republic in 1929. As the larger Maccabi movement is involved with promoting physical activity and sports among the Jewish people, the Maccabi youth movement was designated to focus on the informal education of the young generation, in light of the vision of Max Nordau and the idea of "Muscular Judaism".