Word: kibbutzim
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...heroic efforts, these new immigrants succeeded in creating almost a whole-new separate Jewish sector of Palestine's economy. Jews who'd been city workers or intellectuals in Europe set up the collective farms and co-operatives, the kibbutzim and moshavim, that helped drain swamps and make things grow and became, for awhile, in the case of the kibbutzim, the wonder of socialists around the world...
...time of economic austerity has arrived. Tourism has diminished considerably, building construction has slowed almost to a halt, and a large war tax has been levied on every family. The effect of this economic depression will be felt keenly by all: businessmen, professionals, and even the workers in the kibbutzim. This situation, too, has stunned the nation...
Younger Jews are lining up to go to Israel, where they will fill in at kibbutzim to release Israelis for military service. So far, some 350 people between the ages of 18 and 30 have flown from New York to Israel on charters organized by Sherut La'am, a department of the World Zionist Organization. "We have literally thousands of calls," says Nahum Remen, who is handling volunteers in Boston. "Some of the older people who call give me hell when I tell them they can't go." Volunteers are carefully screened by psychologists and social workers...
Bloom and Rothstein will take the place of Israelis who have left their places in the kibbutzim to fight...
Sherut La'am, the local Jewish organization which recruited and selected the Boston area people going to the kibbutzim, turned down quite a few people who wanted to go to Israel, Bloom says. "They didn't want people who all of a sudden got turned on about Israel," he says. "Kibbutz work is boring-six or seven days a week, ten hours a day. Sherut La'am isn't interested in people who want to go hear the bombs falling for a couple of weeks and then come running back...