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Kibbutz dining room with festive Pesach cheer. The open hearted and generous towns' people with
Not to mention the constant search for scorpions their ever-open unlocked doors and with magic
in shoes, socks, cooking pots, beds etc. Nearby movable walls in small apartments always
was an airfield from the time of the British prepared for additional visitors and beds that
Mandate where the yellow scorpions would come would be spirited out from under another couch:
out at night to do their mating dance, which we this was the tenor of the atmosphere in which I
would watch from a safer distance. first became aware of this amazing country. And
so, in 1957, when we were able, we made Aliyah
Many years later on occasion of a Habonim
reunion at Kfar Hanassi, we were shown around to Kibbutz Ein Harod, to the lovely Emek Jezreel
the Kibbutz today and taken to the site of Mansura valley, our first home.
where we had camped in 1949. This was actually The Aliya to Israel, with my family, in 1957, was
facing the Syrian lines during the ’48 war, east of essentially the outcome of the strong influence
the Kibbutz. Habonim had on my life.
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