Word: nahal
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...abandoned an advertising job in London to bring his family to the land of promise, where he felt they all belonged. Settled in the Tel Aviv suburb of Kiron, the Aroyos often spent Sabbaths touring their new country. One bright Saturday they set out south to visit a seaside nahal, or fortified camp, in the Sinai below El Arish...
...supreme effort demanded of you, and the extreme danger you are required to face in order to defeat the enemy. Battles in the skies over Kutamiya and Salhiya are no holiday gifts. But better that the battle for our future be fought there than at the fences of Nahal Oz and with the blood of the children of Kiryat Shemona...
What About Kutamiya? Dayan did not have to explain whom he meant by Egypt's "foreign advisers." Every Israeli by now is able to translate such a phrase into Russian. Similarly, Dayan's countrymen know of Nahal Oz, a fortified settlement on the Gaza Strip border; and Kiryat Shemona, a city on the Lebanon border where eight residents have been killed in recent months by Russian-made rockets fired by Arab guerrillas...
...Amman, other guerrillas raided Israel along the Jordanian border. Israeli troops patrolled inside Lebanon to contain guerrilla activity there, but the fedayeen nevertheless managed to loft Soviet-made Katyusha rockets into the frontier town of Kiryat Shemona. Syrian artillerymen firing Russian guns shelled a border defense settlement called Nahal Gishor, killing a girl soldier. Suez rocked with the sound and fury of the heaviest fighting...
...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...