Word: kibbutzim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only mean trouble for the party, the country and possibly the Middle East. With abstentions and irregularities culled, Rabin won by only 41 ballots (1,445 to 1,404), or less than 2%. Significantly, Rabin only squeaked through by sweeping the votes allotted to Israel's conservative kibbutzim, where Labor Party members traditionally get nearly double the convention representation of everyone else in recognition of the key part that early Zionist kibbutzniks played in Israel's development. In short, the Premier's narrow party victory was a minority vote...
...Palestinians on the West Bank of the Jordan River are still angry. Restive under nine years of Israeli occupation and irritated by the presence of right-wing, nationalist Israeli settlers in illegal kibbutzim (TIME. May 17), the Arabs again rioted in West Bank cities, as well as in the old quarter of Jerusalem. Three Arabs were killed in clashes with Israeli troops-one of them a 16-year-old girl, whose funeral was attended by several West Bank mayors and other local dignitaries. In the aftermath, Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government debated new tactics for dealing with the cancerous...
...dropped sharply after the 1973 war to only 3,400 last year. That war also cut into American tourism to Israel?down from 281,000 in 1972 to scarcely over 200,000 last year. Only the rate of those Americans, mostly young, going to work for a time on kibbutzim has increased since the war; the number was about 5,000 last year, but applications appear...
...Alignment member shouted that his party had built more kibbutzim in Israel than Likud...
...commandos who took part in the raid were dressed in the headbands and cloaks that many young Western hippies wear when they stop to work at such kibbutzim. The four emerged from a grove of eucalyptus trees as the kibbutz was finishing breakfast and split into two pairs. Two fedayeen went into an apiary where two women, Edna Mor, 28, and Shoshana Galili, 58, were at work taking honey from beehives. The other guerrillas, believing that they had been spotted, opened fire and killed Judith Sinton, 18, a young New Zealander who had been living in the kibbutz for three...