Word: kibbutzim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wind howls cold in their unheated rooms and the food in the larder is plain. The week before, there had been a Christmas tree for the children and toys around it, and some sober merrymaking. In fact, there was more Christmas at Pardailhan than in all the other kibbutzim in the world combined. Pardailhan is not in Israel but in Southern France, and its members are not Jews...
...their part, newly independent Africans, needing and wanting help but leery of the hand offered by the old colonial powers, suspect fewer strings to Israeli assistance. As a mixed economy itself with a flair for socialist forms, e.g., the agricultural kibbutzim, Israel is also psychologically more in tune with smaller nations who think their problems so vast and their time so short that they do not trust free enterprise alone. Besides, says one Israeli official, "we are working on the same scale as other small nations, and our shoes happen to fit them...