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Southern Lebanon became a battlefield again last week as Israeli jets bombed the area day after day in an effort to destroy Palestinian commando bases. On Wednesday when a band of Palestinian guerrillas tried to cross the border and raid a kibbutz, the Israeli army was waiting. It intercepted the Palestinians, captured one guerrilla and chased the others back into Lebanon. Then, with the support of its Lebanese Christian allies under the command of Major Sa'ad Haddad, an Israeli force of at least 400 pushed four miles into Lebanese territory until it ran head-on into United Nations...
...wing Backbencher Geula Cohen: "They will play it in Amman [Jordan] as well, if you give them Jerusalem!" But the members of parliament were generally appreciative until Begin mentioned the only new agreement to come from the trip: Sadat had agreed that the Israelis could keep a laundry at Kibbutz Neot-Sinai, a mile east of El Arish, until the final withdrawal from the peninsula in early 1983. That news brought a chorus of catcalls from hecklers: "What about the laundry? Is that your biggest achievement...
...spokesman said the early morning firefight occurred at Kibbutz Tirat Zvi, a collective farm 20 miles south of the Sea of Galilee and north of the Israeli-occupied West Bank...
...example of her elder sister Sheyna. Intent on becoming a schoolteacher, Golda ran away from home to live with her sister in Denver. There she married a mild, intellectual sign painter, Morris Myerson, whom she argued into emigrating to Palestine in 1921. They lived for two years in a kibbutz (where Golda promptly took over and reorganized the communal kitchen), then moved to Tel Aviv and later Jerusalem, where their two children, Menachem and Sarah, were born. But she soon realized, as she wrote in her autobiography My Life, that she had to decide whether "to devote myself entirely...
...only animal at the '78 Biennale. The place was a barnyard, rich with the odors of dung and urine-soaked straw. The Israeli pavilion was converted into a fold, with 17 ewes and one ram, their backs smeared with blue by the artist, Menashe Kadishman, a former kibbutz shepherd. The azure blots, "drifting apart or coming together according to the sheeps' movement," make up a painting, so the catalogue declared. One conceptual artist, Jannis Kounellis, exhibited a macaw on a perch-an old work, possibly touched up with a new macaw. Another, Vettor Pisani, had a rhesus monkey...