Word: kibbutz
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...Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. "There can be no knockout, just a victory on points," he says - a surprising admission from a man tipped by Israeli military analysts as a favorite to become the army's Chief of Staff in five to 10 years. Born on a kibbutz in northern Israel, Tibon lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and two daughters. His is the difficult life of a soldier, often away from his family for weeks at a time, because his "basic belief is that Israel is in the middle of a 100-year war." Tibon prosecutes that...
...Dror Harazi, 34, with 14 years of service in the reserves, was ordered into a house overlooking an alley where a platoon of the 5th Brigade had been ambushed. Gunmen were firing at the Israelis from a building above the alley. With Lieut. Eyal Yoel, an officer from a kibbutz outside Jerusalem, Harazi went into a half-built house to provide covering fire for the injured. Yoel crossed the room and tripped the wire of a booby trap; the explosion knocked him unconscious and set him on fire. Harazi, who had been protected from the blast by a pillar...
...Defense Minister, the one-eyed Moshe Dayan, was an authentic hero. One night, I remember, the BBC aired a tribute to Dayan using as a sound track the Who's I Can See for Miles, which we thought was pretty cool. In the late '60s spending time on a kibbutz was a fashionable way for European teens to bridge the gap between school and university. As far as I could judge as a young man, widespread European sympathy for Israel--the sense that Israelis were the good guys in the Middle East--extended through the horrors of the Munich massacre...
...homecoming in Rabbit-Proof Fence feels real, it is partly because it has also been one for Doyle. Leaving his hometown of Sydney at 18 to join the merchant marine, the maverick Australian worked on a kibbutz in Israel and spruiked Chinese medicines in Thailand before falling in love with Hong Kong, its energy and women. There a freewheeling new cinema was taking off and, faster than you can say Chungking Express, the self-trained Doyle found himself at its center. The journey took him to Hollywood, where he added color to Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Alfred...
...Nkosi's legacy, jokes Gail Johnson, "is exhaustion." She runs Nkosi's Haven, which gives HIV-positive mothers, their children and AIDS orphans a place to live. She has plans for a series of kibbutz-style farms to house HIV-positive women and children. Convinced that Nkosi lived longer than other HIV-positive children because he lived in a decent house and ate decent food, Gail is determined to help others achieve "normality, that's all. Acceptance." Nkosi, the unlikely messenger, showed others that normality is possible...