Word: yael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ISRAEL JOURNAL JUNE, 1967 and DEATH HAD TWO SONS, by Yael Dayan. From the 28-year-old daughter of General Moshe Dayan comes an exhilarating chronicle of the Israeli victory over the Arabs and a tough-minded, unsentimental novel peopled by ghosts of the Hitler...
ISRAEL JOURNAL JUNE, 1967 and DEATH HAD TWO SONS by Yael Dayan. 113 and 191 pages. McGraw-Hill. $4.95 each...
...Yael speaks for a generation of Israelis moving away from the kibbutz and its limited life. Yael's horizons are broader than those of her kibbutz friends. She has been to New York twice visiting relatives. She is curious about the racial riots in the United States and quick to grasp the immensity of the problems underlying them. Already matriculated, Yael has no doubt about going on with her studies, and has decided to spend one year studying in the U.S., probably at Berkeley. Yael's generation is returning to the European of its own accord, demanding higher education...
...attitude is not strictly a doubling back. It is a new synthesis. Yael may find Ayeleth too confining, but she works without complaining, and what she does, she does well--often better than kibbutzniks. Nor does she resent Army service. She welcomes it as an educational experience and a patriotic necessity including the two months of boot-camp--pure military training--with which women begin their military duty...
...alone, Yael's generation will build a strong and progressive culture out of the sands of the Middle East. But if threatened, it can fight with cunning and perserverance for the right to live