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FOLLOWING JOYCE'S Story then by train all the way to Haifa. From
Haifa, we boarded an Egged bus to Safed, and
ON A GROUP VISIT TO then down to Rosh Pina, where a rickety
kibbutz lorry picked us up and took us
GORSEY LEAZE IN 1946, through muddy roads to Kfar Blum, at the
AND MY 3RD BIRTHDAY edge of the malaria-infested Hula swamps.
DUBI MARGALIT
Kfar Blum, early days
H In the morning (both my parents still in deep
and on heart, thank you, Joyce. I
didn't know that there was a
sleep), I walked across to the kibbutz kitchen
farewell Neshef for Moggy and
in, (It was identified by intuition, growing up
Sonia. I gather that since they were making which was adjacent to the hut we were put up
Aliyah during the "White Paper" sanctions, on Hachshara), and asked Frida, Kfar Blum's
this was hushed and the event was dedicated mythical cook: "Lady, may I have my
to my 3rd birthday. breakfast please?". Frida, unabashed, met the
Before the war, Moshe Sharett ordered my challenge. A critical shift followed – from
parents to stay and continue movement work. porridge to semolina.
They, like many others, got caught up in the In the Beit Yeladim, I lost my manners pretty
war, otherwise I would have been born a quickly.
'Sabra'.
I am still on Kfar Blum.
We boarded an Egged bus to Safed
We could not come directly to Israel. Our Kfar Blum today
route took us via Alexandria in Egypt, and
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