Word: kibbutz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jerusalem Earth. If any reminder of Israel's siege mentality were needed, it was provided in the tight security surrounding Eshkol's state funeral. The Premier had wanted to be buried at Degania B, a kibbutz he helped to found near the Jordanian border. The Cabinet decided for security reasons to bury him instead on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, named for the father of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, who is buried there. For the funeral, reservists were called up and extra police posted in Arab sections of the city. After a service in the Knesset plaza, the procession...
...year-old army girl. In reprisal, Israelis strafed fedayeen positions, and jet-escorted helicopters blasted a Jordanian police car, killing three security men. From Lebanon, long the most peaceable of Israel's neighbors, Arab guerrillas rained rocket shells on the town of Qiryat Shemona and a nearby kibbutz, killing two civilians. In reply, Israeli troops shelled the town of Rajar, and traded shells with Lebanese artillery along what had now become Israel's fourth front...
...Eisenstadt can already sense a change in the pioneering spiirt of Israel just in the 20 years of the nation's existence: "There has been some decline in spirit, but there has also been a shift in the foci of the spirit. Previously, the spirit was centered on the kibbutz. Some old-timers still feel that the only way to contribute is to be in kibbutzim, but other want to find other meaningful pioneering goals...
During one of the discussion sessions, a young kibbutznik of 16 or 17 rose and walked over to the banks of the Sea of Galilee, away from the rest of the group. Although reticent at first, he seemed eager to answer questions about his family, life on his kibbutz, and the movement in general...
...peace ever does come to Israel, the people will have to answer the questions they now ignore. Responses to the demands of kibbutz youth will be harder to find. The government willhave to offer the Israelis more than a tough stance toward the Arabs and a strong army, and some means will have to be found to integrate the North African and East European cultures that exist independently, side by side in the country...