Word: nahal
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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...
...more austerity at home, Israel was in a state of patriotic excitement unparalleled since Israel's independence was proclaimed in 1948. In Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, Israelis paraded by the thousands through the streets in mass protest "against the return of the Egyptian murderers to Gaza." At Nahal Oz, the Israeli settlement across from Egypt's old gun positions in the Gaza Strip (see box), delegates from 14 frontier communities passed a resolution against the "strangulation policy of the U.N. majority." For Orthodox Jews who could not express their feelings at public meetings on the Sabbath, rabbis...
...Israelis could not hope for outright conversions. But they were well content with the reaction of a typical Egyptian officer, who said: "From the Gaza Strip all I saw of Israel was two broken houses in Nahal Oz. I thought all Israel was like that. I thought Haifa was like an Egyptian fishing village. I had no idea you had such modern hospitals, industries and cities." He added thoughtfully: "It would not be easy to destroy Israel...