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...politics, the ring's organizer, Ehud Adiv, 26, seemed almost the personification of the national ideal of a young Israeli. Dreamy-eyed and bushy-haired, Adiv had been born at Can Shmuel (Garden of Samuel), a kibbutz near the Mediterranean coast below Haifa. A paratroop sergeant in the Six-Day War, he had rescued wounded soldiers under fire during the battle for East Jerusalem...
...benefit to the Jewish nation. But whatever I do, I do for myself, my family and my home." To rekindle idealism, many collectives now require young people to serve for a year on a newly established kibbutz. For this reason, and because kibbutzniks performed so heroically in the Six-Day War, the movement is regaining the prestige that it lost when statehood came, and Israelis are seeing the communes as symbols of self-sacrifice...
Both Goren and Yosef enjoy wide popularity, partly because they are both more Israeli in outlook than their predecessors. Goren won some of his fame as a flamboyant warrior rabbi who doggedly earned his paratroop wings after breaking his leg in his first jump. During the Six-Day War, he made a point of trying to be first wherever he went -to the Wailing Wall, for instance, where he sounded the shofar (the traditional ram's horn). He is also admired as an astute scholar and consummate finder of Halakhah loopholes that more easily accommodate Orthodox observance...
...wanderers. Trips to Israel begin to focus his Jewish heritage. Small, spartan and disciplined by challenge, Israel for Gold seems like some sort of milk farm of the soul. The words pour out - regret for not being worthy of his past, pride at Israel's victory in the Six-Day War, and a feeling that even "the perfect story" and "the perfect girl" are not enough. Amer ica, in fact, is not enough...
DESCRIBING THE Administration's role during last year's most turbulent period, the six-day occupation of Mass Hall, Steiner said: "We felt it crucial to keep as many people as possible informed about what was going...