Word: kibbutzim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quneitra (pop. 10,000) was a ghost town, its shops shuttered, its deserted streets patrolled by Israelis on house-to-house searches for caches of arms and ammunition. The hills echoed/with explosions as Israeli sappers systematically destroyed the miniature Maginot line from which the Syrians had shelled kibbutzim across the Sea of Galilee. On the other side, kibbutz children slept in their own beds instead of underground shelters for the first time in a week...
...khaki miniskirts and pertly cocked overseas caps were on round-the-clock duty at sandbagged gun positions. Middle-aged men volunteered for temporary police duty, and middle-aged housewives enlisted for service as air-raid wardens. Schoolchildren delivered the mail, and university students paid their own way to remote kibbutzim (collective farms) to replace teachers called to arms. In Jerusalem, two wealthy merchant brothers responded to the emergency by paying up five years of back taxes. In Tel Aviv, an army officer and his wife named their newborn son Tiran after the disputed Strait at the mouth of the Gulf...
...recession coincided with a national yearning by the Israelis to settle down and enjoy some of the fruits of their labors. They wanted cars, television sets and automatic washers. For several years, they had been moving out of the spartan kibbutzim and into the cities; now, from down on the farms came a collective female chorus demanding that beauty salons, staffed by trained beauticians, become a permanent part of kibbutzim equipment. Some kibbutzim posted signs to advise passing tourists that their restaurants honored Diners' Club credit cards. As was bound to happen, some of the bloom was beginning to fade...
...Israel the volunteers will live primarily on the kibbutzim -- collective farms -- and work in the fields. Others will work in the cities and factories. They are committed to remain through August, Bennett said, but if American citizens are evacuated in the event of war, the volunteers will also be returned...
...experimental program at St. John's College in Annapolis where the seminar was the main form of instruction and field experience was provided for weeks on kibbutzim in Israel...