Word: kibbutzim
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...forest-covered mountains of northern Galilee were burning today, after missile strikes from Hizballah hit several villages and kibbutzim along the border in what Israeli Northern Command officers said was a well-coordinated attack. Multiple Katyusha rocket attacks, as well as several cross-border incursions by Hizballah fighters, left at least seven Israeli soldiers killed, a tank destroyed, two soldiers injured and two infantrymen held captive by Hizballah...
...eight people are not enough for a real community. (Eight people! Our houses are veritable kibbutzim). Yet there is little incentive to make friends in the House because the excitement is gone, and people are trying other things. To get involved in House life is to try to rescue a sinking ship...
...Then, they got on the 20 busses that were awaiting them, and after quite a long wait they started in the slow procession out of Gush Katif. Just out of Gaza Strip, people from the local kibbutzim greeted them with refreshments. The next stop in the journey was, according to the evictees' request, the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. It was almost 1:00 AM when they arrived to the ancient, sacred site, but the place was packed. The Hilburgs have a daughter who lives in the city of Modiin, halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv; they spent the night...
...three settlements established in the northern part of the Gaza Strip during the 1980s. Firouz, 44, moved here simply because it evoked memories of the beautiful sand dunes of his childhood in the Israeli town of Ashdod. As a young man he had lived in several kibbutzim and in Ashdod, but it was only the years in Dugit that provided him and his family with tranquility and a feeling of a real home, he says. Given a piece of land there by the Israeli government, he invested more than $200,000 to build a luxury home of 1200 square feet...
...enterprising president, Morris Demel, 50, a Polish-born Jew who grew up in Cuba and fled to Puerto Rico after Castro's takeover, planned to grow produce on arid southern coast farmland once used for sugar cane. Importing five Israeli agronomists and applying drip-irrigation methods developed on Israeli kibbutzim, Demel initially wanted to devote 5,000 acres to fruits and vegetables. But seven years after he began the project, only 1,000 acres are under cultivation...