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...telephone interview with Peretz, it was pointed out to him that a recent issue of The New Republic had two book reviews on Israel. One was on the Israeli army and the other on women in the kibbutz. Peretz replied angrily that he had previously noticed this and his explanation is that the same issue contained two reviews pertaining to Africa. Sure enough the issue contained a review of a Nigerian author's book and another on art from Zaire...
...read a warning in the dining hall of an Israeli kibbutz on the Golan Heights last week. That was a reference to Nov. 30, the day on which the third six-month mandate for the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force posted between Syrian and Israeli troops on the Heights is due to expire. Unfortunately, one Golan settlement was not secure enough. One night last week Arab gunmen infiltrated a kibbutz called Ramat Magshimim (Hill of the Achievers), which had a population of 200 Orthodox Jewish settlers. The Arabs killed three students and wounded two others before escaping across the Syrian frontier...
...single Israeli living on the Heights is prepared to come down except as part of an overall peace agreement, Levin and Halevy discovered, although the reasons for remaining vary from kibbutz to kibbutz. Some settlements have been established by religious Jews with visions of recovering all the land encompassed by the Israel of biblical times. Says Gideon Bachau, 24, a former paratrooper who lives at Kibbutz Keshet: "This area is more Jewish than some other parts of Israel. Tel Aviv, for instance, was always Philistine country." Other settlers cling to the Heights for more down-to-earth reasons. Explains Zipporah...
...EQUALITY: Are Women Really for It? No, says Rutgers Anthropologist Lionel Tiger. His new book Women in the Kibbutz (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $10.95), written with Israeli Anthropologist Joseph Shepher, argues that traditional sex patterns are so strong they have even overwhelmed the declared ideology of sexual equality in Israel's rural collectives...
...much as Israel, if not more, it is unlikely that he, or a possible successor, would do so. Kissinger's argument seems to have won over Premier Rabin at least. "I do not view an agreement as dangerous," Rabin told a group of settlers at a kibbutz in the Negev Desert. "Anyone trying to define a proposed withdrawal as a disaster for the state is only sowing panic." Moreover, he pointed out, even if the new agreement goes through, Israeli forces will still be an average 94 miles to the west of the 1967 border...