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...Begin government in Israel is confronting the Kibbutz movement with a "hostile" environment the extent of which the movement has never before experienced in its 70-year history, Eli Zamir, general secretary of the United Kibbutz Movement (UKM), said yesterday...
Speaking to about 25 people over breakfast at Dudley House, Zamir, who represents 70,000 members from about 166 of the communal settlements, said that in order to survive, the kibbutz movement requires a social, political, and economic climate that Begin's coalition does not provide. Under all the governments of the Labor party, which was in power for almost 30 years until Begin was elected in 1977, that climate existed, he added...
Unlike most other Israeli leaders of his time, Dayan had his roots in the region: he was born, the first child in the first Jewish kibbutz in Palestine, to Russian immigrant parents in 1915. He developed a deep and lasting love for the land, its history, artifacts and villages, which he wrote about in a 1978 book, Living with the Bible. Because of his Arabist interests, he was sometimes disparaged by his colleagues as "that Arab." But to Dayan's credit, he came to appreciate the concerns of his adversaries more than most Israel officials. His conviction that...
Born in Poland and raised on a kibbutz, he was appointed director general of the Defense Ministry at age 29 by his political mentor, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. For the next 13 years, Peres played a major role in organizing Israel's defense forces, building up its formidable arms and aircraft technology and launching its nuclear research program. Today Israel is generally considered to be a nuclear military power...
...Anne (Elise Caron), that is the moment she chooses to defy her bourgeois mother and take off with her lower-class lover Frederic (Philippe Lebas) and his friend (François Cluzet). The trio have a vague plan: they will ship out from Venice and find happiness on a kibbutz in Israel...