Word: kibbutz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leggy El Al stewardess belongs to it, and so does the professor at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, the orange picker in the kibbutz and the housewife in Haifa. Israel's Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and most of his Cabinet are card-carrying, dues-paying members. All are enrolled in an extraordinary organization called the Histadrut, Israel's huge and powerful 900,000-member labor federation...
...dotty duchess in The VIPs, was having her hair done in a London studio when the news reached her. Melvyn Douglas, given the best supporting-actor award for his work as Paul Newman's father in Hud, was visiting Israel with his daughter, who once lived in a kibbutz there...
...older universities. Instead of spending years as apprentice colleges, the old way of breeding British universities, the new schools are opening as full-blown universities. Skirting wet cement and snarling bulldozers, a visitor at one raw campus last week felt "the kind of enthusiasm you find in an Israeli kibbutz. You want to pick up a shovel or roll up your sleeves and unpack books. It is all so unstuffy, informal and energetic that it seems downright un-English...
Stevenson was referring to a bloody flare-up on the Israeli-Syrian frontier touched off, Israel charged, when ten Syrian soldiers sneaked across the Jordan River and the demilitarized zone and machine-gunned two 19-year-old farmers irrigating a kibbutz field north of the Sea of Galilee. The Syrians denied the killings, accused Israel of sending 15 armored cars charging across the border...
Meanwhile, Ben-Gurion plans to live at the Sde Boker kibbutz in the bleak Negev desert and turn out books on everything from Jewish history to his own autobiography. He hopes also to further his pet project: the "cultural absorption" of Jewish immigrants from Asia and North Africa into Israel's predominantly Western society. Ben-Gurion argues that unless the Oriental Jews are educated faster, Israel may turn into a typically "indolent" Levantine state within ten years...