Word: kibbutz
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...local Jewish organization which recruited and selected the Boston area people going to the kibbutzim, turned down quite a few people who wanted to go to Israel, Bloom says. "They didn't want people who all of a sudden got turned on about Israel," he says. "Kibbutz work is boring-six or seven days a week, ten hours a day. Sherut La'am isn't interested in people who want to go hear the bombs falling for a couple of weeks and then come running back...
...find a model for a photo that would show an Arab holding a gasoline hose. The theme: "Arab Oil Squeeze." Kaye volunteered his own bearded, dark visage and even provided a headdress−one that he had bought, of course, in Israel, where his brother lives on a kibbutz...
Arikha, who was born 44 years ago in Rumania, survived the Nazi labor camps in Central Europe and was repatriated as an orphan to an Israeli kibbutz in 1944. He studied art and philosophy in Paris-where he still lives with his wife and two children in an icon-cluttered apartment-and until 1965 was an abstract painter. Then came a volte-face; since that year, he has concentrated entirely on life drawing, thus reversing the usual modernist's development. "I was born into modern art," he says, "and it was my start. I think that period is closed...
Except for a penchant for far-left politics, the ring's organizer, Ehud Adiv, 26, seemed almost the personification of the national ideal of a young Israeli. Dreamy-eyed and bushy-haired, Adiv had been born at Can Shmuel (Garden of Samuel), a kibbutz near the Mediterranean coast below Haifa. A paratroop sergeant in the Six-Day War, he had rescued wounded soldiers under fire during the battle for East Jerusalem...
Adiv, however, had grown up in a kibbutz composed of dedicated socialists, and for some reason had plunged deeper and deeper into radical politics. First, Adiv became a member of the Israel Socialist Union, generally called Matzpen (Compass) after its publication. The group is revolutionary socialist and condemns Jewish colonialists for seizing all of Palestine from the Arabs. Two years ago, Adiv formed the Revolutionary Communist Alliance-Red Front, which has world revolution as an ill-defined goal, and enrolled a dozen members. Among them were Dan Vered, 28, a fellow Sabra and a high school math teacher...