Editing Shlichus (section)

== [[The Shluchim to Eretz HaKodesh|Groups of Shluchim to Eretz HaKodesh]] ==

==== 1956 ====
In the summer of 1956, following the murder at the trade school, the Rebbe sent shluchim to Eretz HaKodesh for the first time. The shluchim were a group of students from Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim HaMerkazis at 770. They stayed in Israel for about a month - from the 5th of Menachem Av until the 1st of Elul. The shluchim visited Chabad educational institutions and yeshivos in Israel and holy sites.

==== 1976, 1977, 1978 ====
Three groups of shluchim to [[Eretz Yisroel|Eretz HaKodesh]] were sent by the Rebbe in 1976, 1977, and 1978 - one each year.

These groups - by the Rebbe's instruction - settled mainly in the city of [[Tzfas]] and in [[Yerushalayim]]. Later, the shluchim from these groups moved to different cities, according to the Rebbe's instructions. The Rebbe's directive to the shluchim was that anyone who could serve in a rabbinic position should do so - and indeed, many from these groups went on to serve as rabbonim throughout Israel (among them Rav [[Levi Bistritzky]], Rav [[Eliyahu Yochanan Gurary]], Rav [[Yosef Hecht]], Rav [[Ben Tzion Lipsker]], Rav Yaakov Reices, and others). The arrival of the shluchim gave tremendous momentum to Chabad activities in Eretz HaKodesh, establishing yeshivos, educational and chesed institutions, and strengthening the hiskashrus of Anash in Eretz HaKodesh to the Rebbe.