Word: kibbutz
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...public policy as she is in private principle. While it is a byword in government offices that "no one ever crosses Golda," no one who knows her is surprised at her egalitarian insistence, in the privacy of her home, of having her maid and chauffeur share her table, kibbutz-style. An opposition gibe that "all government decisions are cooked in Golda's kitchen" is obviously overbaked, but she does shift easily between home and state, breaking off from preparing a gefilte fish to salute an army courier or, as she did on one occasion, startling other guests by showing...
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...
...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...