Word: kibbutzers
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...never been a time when Israelis could feel completely safe from attack. This collective experience, so totally alien to an American outlook, made a great impression on me when I lived in Israel last year. It was all the more heartening, therefore, to hear someone like my adopted kibbutz mother-a woman who lost her husband in the Yom Kippur War-stand firmly by her belief in compromise with the Palestinians. She had realized, in overcoming her sorrow, that to obtain peace, fear and rejection must be surmounted. Only in this way will her children be spared the effects...
...Destiny" is Kollek's description of how he came to be mayor: "My whole life led up to it." Born in Vienna 70 years ago, he became an ardent Zionist and arrived in Israel in 1935 to work on a kibbutz. During and after World War II, he undertook a number of foreign intelligence missions and helped smuggle refugees and arms into Palestine. After independence, he served for more than a decade as director general of the Prime Minister's office. Elected mayor of Jerusalem on a Labor ticket in 1965, he has been re-elected three times...
...fathers were killed by a Katyusha rocket in 1978 as they walked past a wall in the Manara kibbutz. There is a hole in the wall, like a bite mark, where they were hit. It is the only sign of destruction in Manara, where everything else seems to flourish. Red flowers glow in dark green bushes. Babies in colorful sun hats waddle in the playground where the cab of an old truck has been painted yellow and pink and made into a toy. The older children use the pool. From the water they may look down into a valley full...
Dror and Nimrod, both 10, are the best of friends, and share a bedroom in the kibbutz. Dror wears glasses and looks professorial. Nimrod has a dreamer's face. His brown bangs are cut evenly like a monk's over a pair of eyes the same shade of brown. The boys' room is spare, full of sunlight and, like most boys' rooms, ridiculous. On the wall hang pictures of two white kittens, a deer, Popeye and Olive Oyl, and an El Al jet. The boys have done some pictures of their own. Dror displays a drawing of Begin and Sadat...
...example of Begin's hostile attitude, Bennett said the government had attempted to protray kibbutz members as "millionaires" by sponsoring advertisements showing the construction of a kibbutz swimming pool last month. The advertisements did not mention the fact that the pool was for an entire community and not only one family, he added...