Word: kibbutzim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fault of what was, in general, a very eye-catching and effective display of black and white photographs was the lack of any pictures portraying the Jewish people in a more positive light. There should have been at least a few multi-colored pictures of the thriving kibbutzim in Israel, the sight of lush greenery and seemingly infinite groves of oranges and olives in what was a combination of malaria-infested swamps and barren dessert before Israeli Independence was achieved. Why were there no pictures of the fields of green in previously arid areas of the Negev? Why were there...
...Assad had offered no new assurances about security arrangements if Israel does withdraw from the Golan Heights. Rising in a steep escarpment to a height of 2,970 ft. on the Syrian-Israeli border, the Golan commands all the low ground that constitutes northern Israel. Syria repeatedly shelled Israeli kibbutzim from the Heights in the 1960s. Not a shot has been fired there since Henry Kissinger brokered a troop- separation accord in 1974, but poised on both sides are thousands of tanks, a bristling reminder of the state of war that has existed between Syria and Israel since...
These are people who work in factories and kibbutzim, who serve in the army, who feel they have no other home but Israel. For them, serving in the army is the act which represents their greatest commitment to Israel Also the army, along with the intelligence agencies, is the institution which has saved Israel from defeat. Their technological precision and martial skill put the Israeli Defense Forces among the highest-ranked military forces in the world...