Results for “Kibbutz”

…ething that came naturally. And it is also true that from my first experience of the world of numbers as a child on the kibbutz, and as I tackled ever more elaborate pieces on the piano, I did become aware of what might be called the upside of “a touch of Aspergers” — if that, in...

…ens — the very border areas where I’d led intelligence operations in Sayeret Matkal. I, too, drove north. Not far from Kibbutz Dan, the staging point for our first Golan operation, I linked up witha group of other sayeret reservists. Israeli tanks had already broken the main res...

when we returned to the kibbutz and replaced it in the armory.

who believed passionately in the grand social experiment of kibbutz

stocky and strong from his work on the kibbutz. He had a

and his natural caution was an additional asset as the kibbutz got

awkward kibbutz teenager at APC boot camp in the Negev; through my

he was married to one of my kibbutz “sisters” from

and my parents on the kibbutz could still not be sure I had escaped the fate

…as for someone Dayan didn’t know personally. His intended audience was the rest of the country. He spoke in Nahal Oz, a kibbutz on the border with Gaza often targeted by fedayeen. In April 1956, a group of Arabs crossed from Gaza and began cutting down the wheat in Nahal Oz’s fie...

…s if nothing had happened. The Yemenis also needed jobs. This led to a challenge for Mishmar Hasharon. The core of the kibbutz ethos was that we would live from our own labor. Yet Ben-Gurion insisted we and other kibbutzim provide work for the Yemenis and other new arrivals from...

…ing math and science classes. For my mother, the blow was softened by the fact I began working almost full-time on the kibbutz, alongside Yigal, driving a tractor. I woke up early and accompanied him into the fields of wheat, barley or rye. We also made a series of trips 130 mil...

…as for someone Dayan didn’t know personally. His intended audience was the rest of the country. He spoke in Nahal Oz, a kibbutz on the border with Gaza often targeted by fedayeen. In April 1956, a group of Arabs crossed from Gaza and began cutting down the wheat in Nahal Oz’s fie...

…ens — the very border areas where I’d led intelligence operations in Sayeret Matkal. I, too, drove north. Not far from Kibbutz Dan, the staging point for our first Golan operation, I linked up witha group of other sayeret reservists. Israeli tanks had already broken the main res...

…s quiet again, and never again did the shellfire get near to us. A few weeks later, I heard the only gunfire inside the kibbutz itself. It came from the top of our water tower. The man on guard duty thought he saw movement on the road outside. But it turned out to be nothing. It...