Word: kibbutzers
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...Israeli air force of 320 combat planes is a formidable fighting unit. The average age of combat pilots is 24, and the majority of them were raised in the tough life of the kibbutz. To fly they must join the air force for five years rather than the three-year tour that other officers serve. Pilots carry out as many as five missions a day. "They're flying the eyeballs off these guys," comments a Western military attache. Some of the combat is at such close quarters, says one pilot, that "often our planes come back black and scorched from...
...northern and eastern borders, Israelis spend more and more time underground. "A couple of years ago, a shelter was where you ran to," said Yitzhak Carmel, a farmer on a settlement near Jordan. "Now it often seems to be the place you live in." At the Maoz Chaim kibbutz, 150 children have been sleeping underground for two years. Many of the shelters have become elaborate installations, complete with lights, water, chemical toilets and good ventilation...
...from the Knesset, Ben-Gurion returned to the cool of his Tel Aviv home to reminisce with TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin about his long career. Ben-Gurion professed himself generally satisfied with his life. But the old man, who will spend most of his time on his Sde Boker kibbutz in the Negev, confided that he had found work on the land more fulfilling than statecraft. Among his reflections...
Singer understandably refuses to write about the holocaust. Most of his family were killed in the war and he feels he lacks the perspective to write about the war and the death camps. His only son. who is a schoolteacher, lives on a kibbutz in Israel with his wife and two small children. "I continue the heredity of my parents," Singer said. "I brought...
...Israel's Premier Golda Meir said during a visit to a kibbutz near Hebron last week: "Would that peace were dependent on concession. The fundamental problem is that our neighbors are not prepared to recognize our right to be here." That being the case, added Golda, who is now 71, the war is likely to continue "for the rest of my days...