Word: kibbutzim
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...Bloom had expected, and he started thinking about what he could do to help in what appeared to be the start of a protracted Israeli war effort. He went to a rally in Brookline where the speakers called for American volunteers to go to Israel and work in the kibbutzim...
...funds collected in this emergency drive at Harvard and in the Greater Boston area will be used for relief to Israel alone. These funds will be used for non-military purposes only: hospital aid, refugee housing and reconstruction of damaged property, like the recently shelled kibbutzim in the Jordan Valley...
...bravado of Israeli life today, there lies an array of bewilderingly complex domestic problems. The "miracle in the desert" has been transformed into a highly urbanized society; 85% of the Israelis now live in the nation's four largest cities, while only 4% still live in the kibbutzim. Zionist Writer Ze'ev Jabotinsky remarked in the 1920s: "We won't really be a country until we have Jewish policemen and Jewish prostitutes." Today Israel has both...
Along with their remarkable self-confidence goes an abiding and rather awesome sense of perseverance. The Israelis protested loudly when France reneged on a promise to sell them 50 Mirage jets-and ended up stealing the plans and building the planes themselves. For years, children in kibbutzim near the Golan Heights were put to bed every night in bomb shelters; in the end, Israel stormed those seemingly unassailable enemy positions and sent the Syrians scuttling toward Damascus. The Israelis persevere manfully with the Hebrew language, despite the fact that almost every conversation is punctuated with shrill cries...
...some Israelis are concerned about the apparently cool, flat personalities that kibbutzim seem to develop. "Our children are ashamed to be ashamed, afraid to be afraid; they are afraid to love, afraid to give of themselves," says an Israeli psychoanalyst. But Ron Shouval, formerly chief psychologist of the Israeli defense forces, has a different view. "It is true that kibbutz kids are shy and on the defensive. But their lack of giving easily to outsiders creates the wrong impression; they are warm underneath. It is just that the young kibbutznik does not give up his first layer easily...