Word: arba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jewish communities are Israeli fortresses in the midst of Arab hostility. The stark reality is told in the barbed wire strung around Kiryat Arba, the largest settlement (pop. 1,700), and in the armed soldier who stands at the gate of Karnei Shomron. Rabbi Moshe Levinger, 42, of Kiryat Arba, a spokesman for the settlers, admits that he always carries a gun. "The Arabs don't want us here," he explains. "They'd kill us all if they could."' Relatively few settlers say they would stay on the West Bank without the Israeli army's protection...
...hillock. Giora Reuveny, 30, is a member of Tomer, a budding Jewish settlement in the sunny Jordan Valley; proudly surveying his six acres of corn, tomatoes and eggplants, he admits to the appeal of the good life at Tomer. Ruth Berchlingue, 46, a French-born Jew, came to Kiryat Arba for religious reasons, and cites Genesis 23:9 as proof that Abraham bought the land she is living...
...Revolution. "There's nothing wrong with making a buck. Free enterprise is the thing that has made this country go zowee." Another reason some approve: makers of souvenirs that meet the modest standards of the Government's American Revolution Bicentennial Administration pay royalties for the use of ARBA's imprimatur, and those fees-4% to 15% of sales-have so far earned the Government $700,000 to help finance such projects as a coast-to-coast bicycle trail and ten massive abstract sculptures to be constructed along Interstate 80 in Nebraska...