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...German and Jew together. To this end, some prominent Israelis have encouraged a small but growing West German program that organizes tours of Israel for hundreds of average Germans -trade unionists, students, professors, churchmen. Most successful part of the program is a sort of penance corps organized by Lothar Kreyssig, a prominent layman of the German Evangelical Church, who has sent two teams of volunteer German youths to work in the harsh surroundings of Israeli kibbutzim (collective farms). Financed entirely by Germans, Dr. Kreyssig's Aktion Suhnezeichen (roughly, Operation Penitence) asks nothing of Israel but the right to work...
...Kreyssig's first problem was to find an Israeli community that would accept his missionaries. Only ten of the nation's 275 kibbutzim agreed to the idea, and even then the first team that went out to a Negev collective last year found it hard to make friends. The second group, twelve young Germans installed at Kibbutz Ba-han on the Jordan frontier, has had an easier time. Each morning they rise at 5:30 a.m. and head for their assigned chores. Some work on tractors, others in cauliflower gardens or the citrus orchards. Admits a leader...
...idea for this penance corps came from Berlin's Pastor Lothar Kreyssig, a president of the German Evangelical Church, which threw its weight behind the plan. Funds are supplied almost entirely by some 900 West Berliners, who give $4,250 a month for operational expenses, including an allowance of 50? a day for the volunteers. More money will soon be needed for a number of ambitious projects, including a Jewish community center in Lyon, a youth center in Rotterdam and work in three Israeli kibbutzim. And plans were being polished in Berlin last week to send twelve young...
...Kreyssig is delighted with the spirit of the young Germans-many of whom are not specifically religious but are moved by the desire to "seek reconciliation with those who have the right to be against...
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