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Leaving his one-story home in the 150-member Gilgal kibbutz, Jerusalem-born Ami Cohen, 35, carries no weapon and seems oblivious to the border with Jordan, just four miles away. Indeed, the auto mechanic often bicycles around Gilgal dressed in little more than a swimsuit and a smile. He says he feels as safe in the kibbutz as he would anywhere else in Israel. Three years ago, Ami and his wife Chantal, 29, abandoned city life in Jerusalem and, with their three young children, joined the thousands of Jewish settlers in the West Bank...
...visits Jerusalem, an hour's drive southwest. As a result, despite Gilgal's harsh desert climate, this self-contained commune continues to attract young families like the Cohens. Indeed, many of the amenities of city life -- color television, air conditioning -- are starting to find their way to the kibbutz. When asked how they would feel if, as part of a peace agreement with Jordan, they were forced to leave the place, the couple look bewildered and act as if they would prefer not to answer. "We're building this place with our own hands," says Chantal in obvious discomfort...
...film crew on hand to record his foreign policymaking, apparently to provide proof of his abilities when he runs for the presidency in 1988, the Vice President, wearing a dark blue skullcap, was photographed kissing Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, visiting the Yad Vashem memorial to the Holocaust, touring a kibbutz and chatting earnestly with Natan (formerly Anatoly) Shcharansky, the Jewish human rights activist released by the Soviet Union in February...
...Elizabeth: "This was at a stage when she wouldn't make her bed. But she had the Sigourney Serious Look -- and when you see it, you act." Now the Wasp princess trades in her deb gown for khaki and operates the potato-peeling machine at the Hill of Isaac Kibbutz. "I tried to improve the machine's performance, and for a $ while it did work faster. So fast that it blew up. The supervisor said I was a humiliation to the Jewish race." That adventure ended in three weeks...
...frankly that it harms me from going deeper in our personal family life, which we want to start as soon as possible," said Shcharansky. "Now we need a good, long rest and to live together." With that, the Shcharanskys, married in 1974, left for three weeks' vacation at a kibbutz in northern Israel...