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The ubiquity of gun-toting soldiers on Israeli buses

By hweinberger October 17, 2011

To get to the Beit Zait Moshav located just outside of Jerusalem, where I spent my Rosh Hashana Holidays this weekend past, it took an hour and a half on three different buses to get there. Each and every bus–the one from Holit to Eshkol and the one from Eshkol to Ashkelon and the one…

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Why would you want to live a stone’s throw from Gaza?

By hweinberger October 14, 2011

Whenever I attempt to explain to someone what I am doing in Israel, their first question is always, “What’s a kibbutz?” A kibbutz is a kind of gated community. It’s a collective community based on a high level of social and economical sharing, equality, direct democracy and tight social relations. A member of a kibbutz…

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