Word: kibbutz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After paying calls on government officials, Strauss toured Holy Land historical sites, spent one night at a kibbutz (cooperative farm). En route, he promised to press for the establishment of diplomatic relations between West Germany and Israel, and to try to bar West German scientists from working for Israel's archenemy, Egypt. Before ending his ten-day stay this week, Strauss was also to get a VIP tour of Israeli defense installations. In the less populated areas, feeling was not running so high. In any case, declared Ben-Gurion, rebuking the demonstrators, "the Jewish people will not accept Hitler...
...hands, sat the assistant conductor of the Israel National Opera. Hirsch Barenblat. 48, former commander of the Jewish police in Bedzin. Poland. For two years after he managed to get to Israel in 1958. Barenblat attracted no particular attention. Then, during introductions at a concert in a kibbutz, a member of the audience suddenly leaped up and shouted: "Barenblat, I remember you! You murdered Jews!" The concert broke up amidst angry confusion. In 1961, after a police investigation. Barenblat was arrested and charged under the Israeli law punishing Nazis and their collaborators who were members of "hostile organizations"-the same...
...Premier. Then both removed their shoes and jackets and went upsy-daisy to discuss the esoteric art of yoga. It was peppery Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion, 76, paying a courtesy call on Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 46, after Menuhin's performance of a Shostakovich-concerto at a kibbutz on the Sea of Galilee. What one man didn't know about music, the other didn't know about politics, but they got along fine. Yoga, confided Menuhin, is the best treatment for his slipped disc, and Ben - Gurion, coming head-over -heels again, told how he had cleared...
...Joshua Moses Javits, 13, it was an auspicious entrance into Jewish manhood. He was in Israel for his bar mitzvah, and his proud papa, New York Senator Jacob Javits, 58, made sure that it was a memorable event. First young Joshua was whisked to a Negev Desert kibbutz to meet Premier David Ben-Gurion, who administered an impromptu Biblical quiz. Next it was a session with Israeli President Itzhak Ben-Zvi, who nodded approvingly as Joshua recited from the Torah. On the big day, in Jerusalem's cavernous Yeshurun synagogue, Joshua marked his confirmation by intoning in near flawless...
...families at "Kibbutz Bahan do not quite know what to make of these outward signs of German repentance. "We cannot believe that Germany has changed since the Nazi period," says a youth hostel leader. "Yet we do know that these guests represent new forces in Germany...