Word: nehemiahs
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...three years Nehemiah sat with two other Jews in a concrete blockhouse, and rifle-in-hand, guarded the three hundred Arabs who scoured minerals off vast earthen pools as the tepid Dead Sea water evaporated. Nehemiah earned 37 Agorah (12 cents) a day, and learned Arabic...
During World War Two Nehemiah volunteered for service in the Jewish Brigade of the British army and fought the Germans in Italy. In 1948 he fought the Arabs from the trenches of his northern kibbutz. His war-time experience would be put to good use. During the Six Day conflict last June, he coordinated Ayeleth's defenses, consisting mostly of an elaborately trenched promontory of high land jutting into the Huleh basin. No attack ever came, thanks to the lightning victory of the Israeli army. But captured documents listed Ayeleth first on the Syrian plan of attack. Ayeleth controls...
...this way, Nehemiah has come a long way from Frankfurt, his birth place. But he has not left his past behind him yet. Nehemiah is secretary of Ayeleth Hashachar--a combination of mayor, personnel supervisor, presiding elder and youth coun selor. Essentially, he is responsible for the immediate well-being of 1000 men, women, and children. The job requires all the managerial talent of a Ford presidency and sets a pace that would leave any tycoon panting. He has more than handled the challenge. This is his second term as secretary, and he's been asked to stay six months...
...culture of the Ghetto also gave them the tools to make that start meaningful. Nehemiah has no problem with his leisure time. On weekends he scrambles with tourist groups over the ruins of the ancient city of Hazor across the main road from the kibbutz. His lips tremble with a trace of a smile as he watches his audience respond to his saga of 5000 years...
Books in four languages (Nehemiah is fluent in French and English as well as Hebrew and German) line the walls of the modest two-room home he shares with his wife, Alisa -- a short, heavy woman with a hesitant but pleasant smile. When his work permits, he often spends evenings over a chess-board. As a child, he used to play four of his friends simultaneously -- while blindfolded himself. Now he is one of the two internationally recognized chess referees in Israel. During August, he referees a three-week tournament in Jerusalem, with fifty-one nations competing...