Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...affair has since widened and proliferated to include arguments about Israel's future economic state, government decentralization and the role of Histadrut, the nation's powerful labor federation, which is now led by Lavon. Most importantly, it involves the question of who is eventually to succeed 74-year-old Ben-Gurion as Prime Minister. Lavon, who is only 56, plainly considers himself available...
...good." Prime Minister Ben-Gurion had enough zeal left last week to take on another opponent. Rising to address the 25th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, he poured out a 100-minute torrent of poetic and apocalyptic Hebrew. Despite the Zionists' impressive efforts in helping create Israel twelve years ago and the nearly $500 million they-and other Jews abroad -have pumped into it since, Ben-Gurion belabored them as cowards and false friends. He described Zionism as "the scaffolding needed to build the state" and then snapped, "there is no need for it now." Instead of money...
...food in the larder is plain. The week before, there had been a Christmas tree for the children and toys around it, and some sober merrymaking. In fact, there was more Christmas at Pardailhan than in all the other kibbutzim in the world combined. Pardailhan is not in Israel but in Southern France, and its members are not Jews...
Leave the Pebbles. Their way of life, however, is pioneer Israeli. Three years ago a Parisian metallurgical engineer named Vincent Thibout, then 33, took his pregnant wife, Therese, to Israel, where they spent 18 months in a kibbutz (collective). He learned how to farm and speak a fluent facsimile of Hebrew; he strews his talk with as many shalom as an ordinary Frenchman with alors...
...Israel, Thibout became convinced that kibbutz communalism "plus Judaism" was the way of moral and material life that he had been looking for. After becoming a Jew himself, he returned to the eleventh arrondissement of Paris and began talking it up. He and his friends took to meeting on Sundays, wrote 2,000 letters to local authorities in farmed-out, underpopulated areas in France. Finally they settled on Pardailhan, near Nimes, and 89 of them pooled their funds ($40,000) and took up residence last spring...