 In its forty years of existence, the camp strongly influenced both Jewish camping and Hebrew culture in North America.The HaNoar Ha’Ivri movement () was established in 1937 to build a Jewish life in the United States that promoted Zionism and the revival of the Hebrew language.In September 1940, the HaNoar Ha'Ivri conference reached a unanimous decision to establish an immersive Hebrew-speaking camp, an idea initiated by Shlomo Shulsinger, who came to the United States from Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s.