Jerusalem: The Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar on Monday launched the “Bukshan Grove” plaque in Jerusalem forest, issued aspects of the unknown Indo-Israel relationship before the formation of a full diplomatic bond between the two countries.
With the aim of maintaining the concept of Mahatma Gandhi Village as a basic unit of development, Indian leaders who explore ways to apply the socialist ideals of the Sarvodaya movement, ‘boodan and gramdan’, making several visits to Israel to study the social structure of various forms of communal institutions and cooperative Israel – ‘Kibbutzim and Moshavim’.
Jayaprakash Narayan, the leader of the Sarvodaya Movement, visited Israel in September 1958 on a nine-day visit as a histadrut guest, the Israeli labor federation.
His visit received widespread attention in Israeli media, which welcomed his warm and brought old biographical articles.
He met the Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and visited Kfar Saba in Central Israel, and Kibbutz Afikim near the North Galilee Sea of Israel during the stay.
Narayan’s visit was attended by the Sarvodaya Team 27 members, who during a six-month study tour in Israel since February-August 1960 spent time in Tel Aviv and Kfar Gilaadi in North Israel.
On the way back to India, they planted “Boodan Grove” in Jerusalem Forest on May 22, 1960.
Jaisankar described a visit by Narayan and Bukshan workers as “aspects of our shared history that did not receive appropriate attention”.
Jaisankar also called the opening of plaques that were very “on time” as last year was a 125-year anniversary of Acharya Vinoba Bhave.
“But there are also larger messages in what we do today.
That is partially a message that our relationship is very centric …
that from the importance of being green and most of me think it’s a reminder for all of us that between India and our Israel Need to continue to find new ways, better ways, deeper connect societal and it is the heart of the progress of our relationship, “said Minister.
Jaisankar also shared information about this joint historical relationship with the Indian Jewish community in his speech on Sunday night.
“In the post-era of modern independence, there are also relatively well-known aspects of how major socialist political leaders and political flows in India feel kinship with the Kibbutz movement in Israel.
And, in the search to build the concept of ashram or Gandhi Village as an independent development unit,” he said.
“Jayaprakash Narayan, one of our most prominent political leaders and theories related to our independence struggle, visited Israel in 1958, and many followers of Vinoba Bhave, leaders who towered from our independence movement, visited Israel in 1960 to understand the Movement of Kibbutz Here, “Jaishankar added.
Intense collaboration details between Sarva Seva Sangh, the group accused of conducting Gandhi’s “constructive program” and Israel Moshavim and Kibbutzim last year was published in an article, “The Kibbutz and Ashram: Sarvodaya Agriculture, Israeli Help, and Imaginary Global Indian Development, “By Benjamin Siegel in American historical reviews.
Sarva Seva Sangh Hosted Benjamin Halevy, a farmer who was born in Ukraine who was recruited from KFar Yehoshua Moshav (or cooperative agriculture settlement) in the Jezreel Israeli Valley, for two years after the report emerged from the extraordinary results that Halevy persuaded from basal land.
“Kibbutz in Gandhi’s ashram will not only be an Israeli model adapted to the Indian context.
For members of the Sarvodaya Movement, a very popular Indian program is dedicated to the practice of Gandhian after his death, the settlement will function as a reprimand to the agricultural theory voters and the modernization of coercial socialists, “Write the author in the article.
“The collective agricultural settlement designed by Israel in the final spiritual house of the late Mahatma will show that popular programs from Uplift Cooperative do not have the right to post-colonial economic and social economic realities, evidence that the Gandhian economy is equivalent to the most brave political experiments,” he added.
The Minister of External Affairs also placed a bouquet of flowers at the Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem to salute the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
Jaisankar will meet his colleague Israel Yair Lapid during the day besides visiting Indian Hospice in the old city of Jerusalem.
Jaishankar launched plaque in ‘Boodan Grove’ in Israel
