Word: kibbutzim
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...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...
...step. "Quneitra is possible," says an Israeli negotiator, "but not in the first stage. First we want to establish Syrian intentions." Israel's overriding concern, of course, is that the Golan Heights overlook vast reaches of northern Israeli territory. In the past, Syrian gunners have periodically raked Israeli kibbutzim with artillery stationed on the strategic heights. For that reason, Israel has established new settlements on the Golan -one more was dedicated last week-as a symbol of its determination to continue to occupy the territory...
...diplomats are not notably optimistic about achieving a speedy accord. For one thing, the territory involved is smaller than that in the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations, and thus there is little elasticity in either position. Israel, which has long insisted that it has to hold the Heights to protect kibbutzim in Israeli territory below from Syrian shelling, also demands a list of P.O.W.s captured by Syria in October, along with guarantees that they are being treated humanely. Far from being accommodating, Syria so far has steadfastly refused the information and has boycotted talks called in Geneva to discuss disengagement. Syrian President...