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Lebanon FFA’r
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the bills such as electricity.
Decisions are made jointly,
with a meeting every
Saturday night for kibbutz
members to make major
decisions. Irit says however,
that many people who live on
the kibbutz never become
members, and many
members don’t attend the
Saturday meetings unless
there is an agenda item
which is of particular in
terest to them.
The people in the kibbutz
eat all their meals together
and all their needs, such as
laundry, are taken care of
communally. The children
are cared for in a children’s
house almost from birth.
While this seems hard to
accept, Int says it is the only
sensible thing to do. She
said, “Everybody works, so
women can’t care for a baby.
We grow up in groups of
five.” The five children stay
together and are cared for
by one person. At km
dergarten age, several
groups of five join together.
She said children and
parents get together
frequently, adding, “I love
my parents as much as Tim
loves his.” She explained
that there are some kibbutz
which allow children to live
with parents and some
others are changing to that
way of living. She strongly
supports the way she was
brought up.
I'm! said that Arabs are
hired for hand work like
picking up potatoes and
picking citrus. He said they
receive very low wages for
their work and felt their lot
was not the best
Int, however, disagreed
with his skeptical
assessment of the treatment
of the Arab workers. She
says emphatically, “They do
get paid lower wages than
the Israelis, but they are
higher than they got before.
And they need die work. We
"do them a big favor. A
special car brings them each
morning and takes them
back m the evening.”
There are some skilled
Arab laborers working in
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housing construction on the
kibbutz, many of whom have
worked there for several
years. Both Irit and Tim
agree that among these
workers, some Israelis have
made lasting friendships and
the Arabs are treated with
respect.
Bringing the construction
workers to the kibbutz
originally caused a “big
argument” among the
members, Irit said, because
they are supposed to be
totally self-sufficient and
should have been able to do
the work themselves. “We
realized that we cannot do it
by ourselves,” she said.
Asked about the military
danger in Israel, Tim
responded, “It is as bad as
they say. Everyone’s in the
Army and there is a full time
guard with two mght guards
every night. I think I lost ray
fear m Poland where there
were Array guys
everywhere. It didn’t bother
mein Israel ”
Int adds, “You leam to
live with it. People do worry,
but you learn to live with the
fear. We are not close to the
danger. The people in the
north live in shelters.”
About the proposed peace
settlement, Int said, “I don’t
know. We need to have
hope.” Tun added, “A lot of
Israelis are really glad for it.
They are happy to have
peace. ’
Int says that she will
probably return to the
kibbutz. “It is all I know. All
my fnends are there and I
have my own position.” She
said she once lived for a year
in Europe, but was very
unhappy.
Following high school
graduation, every young
person spends two years in
the Army, and then
frequently leaves the kibbutz
for a year off. They may
work in town and earn then
own money, Int says. While
many leave and feel they
find something better, many
people choose to come to the
kibbutz
From Israel, Tim traveled
to India where he visited for
one month He was there
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under the auspices ot a
private farmer, who was
‘ quite wealthy ” The man
owned 500 acres, and his
holdings included a sugar
cane factory and several
other factories which used
by-products from the sugar
cane refining process.
Profits from these holdings
were divided among family
members, according to Tun,
but a hospital to serve the
community had been built
from the treasury.
“India is quite an in
teresting country. Most
farmer own five acres and
the farms are worked with
mostly hand labor. Water
buffalo are used to plow and
work the land,” he said.
He described the people as
“very poor. They cook along
the streets and live in grass
huts. The streets were un
paved. It is a poor and
overcrowded county, where
hundreds of people sleep on
the streets at night.”
After a short visit to
Bangkok, Thailand, Tim
returned to Israel and
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traveled to his home in
October.
The whole trip, he ex
plained, “Gave me a better
outlook on life People talk
about America, and now that
I am back I can see some of
their comments. I think most
people are jealous of
Americans because we have
so much and they don’t.”
He said he encountered
many misconceptions about
America, like the fact that
many people feel Americans
are all rich.
“Traveling used to
frighten me.” He feels the
Work Experience Abroad
program offers some unique
opportunities for young
people, but said he feels it is
not publicized enough. He
never would have known of
the program without the
guidance of his teacher.
All of the traveling, he
reiterated, “just makes me
want to go more.”
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