Word: kibbutzim
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...military duty at Ayeleth. Service is compulsory for all girls between 18 and 20, but now that Israel's regular army is so efficient, girls no longer do any fighting. Their two years amount to a general national service and can be spent in military offices, teaching or on kibbutzim. Yael has been at Ayeleth 10 months...
...does not entirely regret her choice. Coming from Tel Aviv, she knew as little about kibbutzim as most Americans, and her ten months have taught her much about the kibbutz's strictly communistic economics and its rugged population...
Ayeleth Hashachar (in Hebrew, the Morning Star) is one of Israel's oldest kibbutzim. In 1916 it pioneered the settlement of the Huleh Valley, then largely marshland. The kibbutz proper-living quarters, communal dining hall, stables, cowpens, storage facilities--lies two miles from the muddy Jordan River as it flows south toward the Sea of Galilee. The Jordan River forms the border between Israel and what used to be Syria...
...occupied Arab territories. He has been asked to allow 150 separate sites to be so settled, and last week he finally gave in-on one. He allowed a dozen paramilitary farm youths to reoccupy Etzion on the West Bank, sacred to Israelis as the site where four kibbutzim were wiped out in 1948 in a gallant stand that helped save Jerusalem from the Arab Legion. Fearing that the move might be a test for further permanent Israeli settlements in conquered territory, the U.S. State Department asked Israel to clarify its intentions. Jerusalem replied that the settlement was meant...
...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...