Word: ayeleth
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...very clean, you know. There are no bodies. Sometimes you see soldiers running, no more. In Syria it was more difficult--lots of anti-air-craft." In Syria it was also less anti-septic, for Nadav at least. Returning from runs, he flew through the smoke spiraling off of Ayeleth's burning fields and storage bins. "I thought the whole kibbutz was burning," recalls Nadav. "It made me very mad. Then I wanted to kill them...
There is nothing special about Yael. She is quiet, short, a little too heavy, not very pretty. But one thing makes her different. Yael is not a member of Ayeleth Hashachar. She is from the city, from Tel Aviv...
Yael is one of ten girls serving their military duty at Ayeleth. Service is compulsory for all girls between 18 and 20, but now that Israel's regular army is so efficient, girls no longer do any fighting. Their two years amount to a general national service and can be spent in military offices, teaching or on kibbutzim. Yael has been at Ayeleth 10 months...
...real difference, however, is one of attitude. Yael came to Ayeleth to escape the drudgery of military paperwork and its 9 to 5 day, but now she wants to leave. She has found the endless routine of physical labor as oppressive as office work--and less instructive...
...attitude is not strictly a doubling back. It is a new synthesis. Yael may find Ayeleth too confining, but she works without complaining, and what she does, she does well--often better than kibbutzniks. Nor does she resent Army service. She welcomes it as an educational experience and a patriotic necessity including the two months of boot-camp--pure military training--with which women begin their military duty...