The design of the program clearly placed options in the occupied territories on equal footing with more traditional forms of Zionist settlement and pioneering. No distinction was drawn between living on a kibbutz in the heartland of Israel and spending a summer in a West Bank community, nor between service in a settlement and volunteerism planting trees
with the JNF. Not only did this format incorporate Zionist settlement in the occupied territories within a larger historical continuity and create an equivalency between traditional and new forms of Zionist activism, but also facilitated the agenda of erasing the Green Line.