Word: kibbutz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eerily effective rendition of Beethoven's Trio in D Major (the "Ghost" Trio) by Violinist Stern, Pianist Eugene Istomin and Cellist Leonard Rose were the high points of Israel's month-long festival. But there were other triumphs. Staged at seven sites from Haifa to the Revivim kibbutz, the festival drew 56,000 people to 23 concerts. In Tel Aviv, 500 music lovers who could not squeeze into the already-packed 3,000-seat Mann Auditorium were chased by police from a parapet outside the second floor. In Jerusalem, an opening-night crowd of 3,500 stood politely...
Bridal Rights. The Bar Kochba explorers-160 soldiers, students and kibbutz volunteers-had been led to the desert badlands just west of the Dead Sea by Archaeologist and former General Yigael Yadin. They found a treasure their first day at the diggings. In the same bat-infested, three-chambered Cave of Letters where he had discovered the rebel chieftain's papyri orders just a year ago. Archaeologist Yadin found some 60 more documents in a goatskin and a leather...
Leave the Pebbles. Their way of life, however, is pioneer Israeli. Three years ago a Parisian metallurgical engineer named Vincent Thibout, then 33, took his pregnant wife, Therese, to Israel, where they spent 18 months in a kibbutz (collective). He learned how to farm and speak a fluent facsimile of Hebrew; he strews his talk with as many shalom as an ordinary Frenchman with alors...
...Israel, Thibout became convinced that kibbutz communalism "plus Judaism" was the way of moral and material life that he had been looking for. After becoming a Jew himself, he returned to the eleventh arrondissement of Paris and began talking it up. He and his friends took to meeting on Sundays, wrote 2,000 letters to local authorities in farmed-out, underpopulated areas in France. Finally they settled on Pardailhan, near Nimes, and 89 of them pooled their funds ($40,000) and took up residence last spring...
Star of David. The kibbutz is run along strict Israeli lines; members carry no money, present lists of their personal requirements, are assigned to the day's work groups as the need arises. The nine babies live in the communal nursery; parents are allowed to take them home and play with them for an hour each evening and on Sunday afternoons...