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Trips to Europe. Rosen is in the minority; most kibbutz members are yielding to the temptations of materialism. On Kibbutz Givat Haim (Hill of Life), every adult couple has a 21-room apartment or cottage, two radios, a refrigerator and a hot-water supply, and gets a trip to Europe every five years. Other kibbutzim are beginning to permit TV sets, not just in the dining hall for group viewing but in members' private quarters. Says David Tal: "Attendance at our Saturday night meeting is way down now because Ironside comes on at 9 o'clock, when...
...quarrel extends to matters of considerably less importance. At a recent Cabinet meeting, they clashed over a proposal to put Allon in charge of a seemingly innocuous government information program. Earlier Dayan bridled at the choice of ex-Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev (rather than Dayan himself) to write an article on Israel's military defense for next year's official 25th anniversary album...
...magic mountain may have taken offense at these pettifoggeries, because more ill fortune fell on the expedition. When Dr. Herrligkoffer returned, he suffered either a mild heart attack or pulmonary edema. Then the Italian, Leo Breitenberger, suffered a lung seizure, which was followed by a mental breakdown. Austrian Werner Haim sustained a severe leg injury, and several others fell ill. That left only two Austrians and the three British, who spent more time arguing over who was to lead than in actual climbing. The British quit in disgust, and soon the remaining Austrians were forced down by inclement weather...
...Haim Bar-Lev, the present Minister of Commerce and Industry but until recently chief of staff of the armed forces (and deputy chief during the war), has stated that "the entrance of the Egyptians into Sinai was not a casus belli." If Gamal Abdel Nasser had not insisted on barring the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, Bar-Lev insists, the war would not have occurred, at least not at that time...
...offered, among other things, profiles of Chou En-lai and Mao Tse-tung excerpted from André Malraux's Anti-Memoirs, a crisp review of a television appearance by five wives of Cabinet members in which the reviewer called for "liberation" of these women, and a review of Haim Ginott's book, Teacher and Child...