Word: nahal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...armor appeared on June 7, 1967, Kallia's Arab defenders had vanished across the Jordan River, leaving buildings, installations and many vehicles intact. For a time, Kallia was merely another dot on Israeli military maps of the occupied territories. Then, just a year ago, the soldier-farmers of Nahal, an acronym in Hebrew meaning "pioneering fighting youth," were dispatched to Kallia. Their mission: to protect Kallia and its portion of the frontier facing Jordan-and to make the desert bloom for Israel...
...closed by an improvised Hebrew sign warning of mines. The other is guarded by a shapely, smiling, blue-eyed blonde wearing fatigues and armed with a rifle and transistor radio. "We girls do the guard duty in the daytime. The boys are on at night," she explains. Nahal's settlers are largely boys and girls between the ages of 18 and 20, all volunteers. Technically, they are in the army and Kallia is formally an army camp, but the atmosphere is distinctly shirt-sleeve mufti. No one would ever think of saluting; everyone is known and called...