Word: kibbutzers
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...hundreds of vehicles that wound their way through Israel's Negev Desert last week formed a kind of mobile Who's Who. Led by President Zalman Shazar and Premier Golda Meir, the pilgrims were bound for the Negev kibbutz of Sde Boker to pay homage, on his 85th birthday, to former Premier David Ben-Gurion...
Reporter-Researcher Deborah Murphy, who has worked on nine cover stories, is as eblouissante as Magnuson is restrained. She came to TIME in 1967 after earning a degree in history at Boston University and working for three months on an Israeli kibbutz on the Lebanese border...
...kibbutz in Israel? The geography might hint so: golden hills, oak trees and cypresses, pepper trees and eucalyptus. In fact, the setting is half a world away from the Galilean landscape it resembles-in the foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains of California, just 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Many of the devoted Sabbath worshipers are in fact ordinary young Jewish Americans, thoroughly the children of their secular culture. They come from homes where Hebrew is virtually unknown, where the Sabbath is observed only perfunctorily if at all, where a kosher kitchen is only a half-remembered custom sometimes...
...learned how the Folk High Schools there in the 19th century effectively blocked Germanization by Bismarck's Prussia. They did so by emphasizing Danish folk culture and a love of working with the soil while maintaining a spirited intellectual atmosphere. Bardin appropriated the concept, reinforced it with the kibbutz ideal of cooperative living, and added the recreational aspects of the American summer camp...
...kibbutzniks, imbued with an agrarian-romantic zeal, probably never made up more than 8% of the population; now they total less than 4%. In the past they were influential far beyond their numbers. Between 1949 and 1967, about one-third of all Cabinet ministers had worked in a kibbutz. But now the kibbutznik is losing authority as an elite stylist. The "new glamour boys," says Elon, "are high-powered technologists, scientists, management consultants." The true believers have been replaced by "hardboiled 'pragmatic' politicians...