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Editorial Board: FEATURES: Chairman. Editorial Board: Lct)n Charncv Tuval; Portrait of a Young Kibbutz 4 Director P.R. & Hasbara: l:dna Kowarskv Riva Rubin; An Anglophone Poet in Israel 8 E d i t o r : R i m a B c r n s Integration Through Tennis 12 Printer: Otpa/ Ltd.. lel-A\i\. P E O P L E & E V E N T S 1 4

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Tuval: Portrait of a Young Kibbutz

by Rima Berns

The lavender sunset spills across the green and It is three o'clock in the morning and sleepy white-rocked splendour of the Galilean hills. bodie.s pump themselves with caffeine and sugar From the lookout on the mountain you are in an effort to shake off the chill of the cutting hypnotised by the passage of the cars and buses winter wind. Bundled in rubber boots and work on the ribbon of road so far below, flowing clothe,s. masks and gloves, they are preparing through the valley as though it were meant to be for that most dreaded of kibbutz tasks — the a river. The lights of Carmiel, and farther away, sending of full-grown chickens to market. The those of Haifa, begin to twinkle in the dusk. Mishloach. For the next three hours they will There is a breathtaking grandeur to the scene — run back and forth through the ammonia-acrid ail the more poignant in the shadow of the large stench of chicken excrement, three squawking, carved stone that is an epitaph to the three who clawing, pecking and understandably resentful died in the Lebanon war, Three young lives out chickens dangling upside-down from each of 60 on the kibbutz. Five percent. clenched fist. The chickens, heavy from two months of gorging and no exercise, are Hung It hit hard, the loss. The kibbutz was only a year into wire cages and fork-lifted onto the huge and a half old. and bristling with hope and trailer-trucks sent to fetch them. It is lllthy. idealism and the collective wisdom of unpleasant work, and it is unclear whether it is summersful of Habonim camps in South Africa the chickens or the kibbutznikim who resent it and England; and then three were dead and it most, but it has to be done. Chickens are a was hard to see the idealism through the blood lucrative and relatively secure business venture. a n d t h e t e a r s , a n d a p a l l c l u n g t o t h e There are growing pains here too. and during mountaintop and the inhabitants of the infant the break there is heated discussion over the kibbutz. time and energy that has been wasted through They have not forgotten, but they have carried poor planning. "Tov." says someone on. Tuva! is three years old now and there are 80 philosophically. "Kacha lomdim." Thus we young people working there, and they are learn. excited about what they are creating. Time has softened the pain a bit. but they have been There is much to learn, much to decide. The forced to mature quickly because the protective community is in its infancy and there is only one embrace of a childhood home is thousands of baby thus far. The population ranges in the kilometres away in Cape Town or Sydney or most part I'rom age 20 to 26. and children are London, and threre are businesses to be built — almost the last thing on anyone's mind, so lumberjacking. chickens for market, the noone knows yet whether the children — when assembly of 'James Bond' briefcases, llowers they do come — will sleep with their parents or for export (geraniums, poppies and in communal living quarters. And there has leptu.spermum), dolls filled with lavender that been no decision on how big the kibbutz ought has been homegrown and dried. to grow or how holidays and study breaks will

4 be allotted. For the moment the members and r a i n s c a m e , t h e r o o t s o f t h e fl o w e r s w e r e c a n d i d a t e s t a k e b r e a k s f r o m t h e k i b b u t z ravaged nightly by wild boars attracted by the whenever they feel the need — and for however only moisture in the soil for kilometres around. long desire dictates. It is part of the joy of being There was anger and confusion on the kibbutz small, that people can be trusted to feel as the boar-attacks continued. They tried sitting personally responsible for the community, and watch in the critical midnight hours, but the not to abuse its privileges. pigs smelled them and stayed away until they The sun is pushing its fiery head over the got tired of their vigil and returned to their beds. horizon as the men and women trudge bone- And then the pigs attacked again. So they hired a professional hunter from the Arab village at weary to a feast of a breakfast prepared by the the base of the mountain, and Leon who is in night's guards. Bits of feathers cling like ice- crystals to their hair and eyelashes and there are charge of the fields sat up with the hunter until hands cut and bleeding from the claws of late in the night, and sure enough the pigs came. indignant chickens, but they laugh and joke and But the hunter had fallen asleep over his gun load their plates with mushroom omelettes, and the thieves escaped unscathed. fried onions and chips. There is a kid on the Then they tried leaving the tractor running all kibbutz now, a birthday present from Kibbutz night with the lights on. growling its industrial Kishon down the road, and he is bleating to noises and stinking of humanity, but when Leon greet the day from the bomb shelter entrance came to turn it off just before sunrise he saw the that is his home. boars, undeterred and unalarmed, greedily rooting in the soil by the light of the machine In the fields around the small collection of that was meant to frighten them. The electric buildings are the flowers, and there is shouting fence was a last resort, but even so it was not and laughter as the day's crop of poppies is until the rains came that the marauders ceased picked. There is an electric fence around the their visits. More growing pains. lield, because in the late-summer before the (continued on next page)

5 Portrait of a Young Kibbutz dining room at lunchtime as it did the night before when everybody watched an American in the little doll lactory the sewing machines comedy about going into the army and laughed whir and fingers move across bright patterns as but did not really believe that their own fates the smell of lavender permeates the blue work would be as fun-filled and mischievous as the clothes and soothes away the lingering scent of Hollywood spoof pretended. chickens, and it is cosy to work around the heater with the flower-smell and the dumb-cute Late in the afternoon there is a furious barking expressions on the dolls heads that will soon be and a terrified bleating from the lawns behind sewn to doll bodies with the proud tag attached the houses, and two kibbutznikim break into a — "Handmade in Israel on Kibbutz Tuval." run but they are too late. It seems the goat had There is a certain tension in the air today, escaped from his bomb shelter and found because seven South African immigrants are himself with no protection when the kibbutz's beginning their army service tomorrow, and six seven or eight dogs came barking and bounding months of basic training loom before them. around him. They are friendly, tail-wagging They are not working. Instead they are having creatures but a pack, like a mob of humans, is a their hair cut and repacking their bags, writing greater entity than the sum of its parts. The kid thoughtful letters home and taking time alone had a heart attack and died before they ever to collect their last civilian thoughts for at least touched him. The word spreads and there is a two years. The tension prickles through the sadness mixed with the tension and the peace that always steals over a kibbutz at the end of a day when work is done and there is time to lounge on the lawns and stare at the sky and talk. There is a Saint Bernard puppy named Pooh, who waddles and is playful and fat, but it is impossible even to be cross with the big dogs. They are only being dogs, and they are closer to nature here on the top of the mountain, like the

humans who live with them.

In the evening there is the sunset and the purple twilight and it is as beautiful as last night but somehow different. It is always different. And at dinner there is a toast to the soldiers and a slide show. They watch the pictures of themselves and they laugh, and it makes no real difference that there is a members' meeting after supper where emotions run high and disagreement is voluble. That is the way it must be.

And they sit with the new soldiers long into the aging night, telling jokes and clutching at newly shorn heads and sharing a few gulps of brandy, but mostly being close, mostly just sharing the time and the feelings that ﬁll it. And that too is Removing the dead from the chicken houses. Photo the way it must be. _ by Jeremy Lerman.

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Best Regards Riva Rubin: An Anglophone Poet in Israel

SOUND OF FIRE Fve heard about a sound iron sings out of rocks. Between us is a bronze sea greening and ﬂaking on my lips. My tongue has burst against ﬁre. My hand, my son, lies mute in your hair.

I am a woman, a writer, and living in Israel. In the end all these things come to bear on my poetry. I don't write about Israel except as it reﬂects life and war. I write about my life, my inner world, which has had to include Lebanon over the past two years. My two sons fought in that war.

SURFER Earthed, you are the slender wand the wave desires to close a magic circuit, to make the passes that set a foam-rhombus spinning at the end of the emerald tunnel you must travel before you can be delivered to light,

earthed.

I suffer very much for lack of an audience. There are great problems getting published here in a language other than Hebrew; even Arab writers have difficulty. The point is that not all Israelis speak or read Hebrew, or can contribute to its literature. Those who don't nonetheless reflect an important part of the country and its people, and they ought to be able to express themselves. If I could write in Hebrew 1 would, but 1 can't change my tools. What it cost me. living in Israel, is that always my writing was pushed to the back. 1 had to make a living. Life is hard here. If I want to publish overseas, I need to spend time there to make contacts and find an agent and so on. 1 never had the time to do that. On the other hand I don't want to be published in any other country before Israel because I am an Israeli writer first, in English.

8 LIGHT I press my tiny mollusc-face against a trace of moss in the crevice where I cling taking the salt lash on my back, I wither contract and cower, I am a fold of darkness, a shudder of forgetting, all dropping away one by one like the cold setting stone of the days. Gone, one by one and all. Except, sometimes, a thing by my claw that moves along the wet sharp and I try to remember, is it what pressed me before I extinguished? 1 recall, it used to move on wood, on wall, in windows in the afternoon and in the dawn like a harp, falling, ﬂowing. They had a name for it. Love? No. It ﬁlled me more. Ah: Its name is Light. (After Thomas Mann's The Holy Sinner)

There are Israelis who have been sensitive to the problem and have done much to raise the general awareness of the publishing community; people such as Ittamar Yaoz-Kest, poet and publisher (Eked), Benzion Tomer, writer of ﬁction, and Ya'acov Besser, poet and editor of Iton 77. And slowly, on the strength of work of mine that has appeared, I have become a part of the Hebrew writing establishment.

JEHAN

Jehan Your cat-faced man

Anwar is gone

Jehan Beware the cage of air.

9 As an artist you hold up a mirror and hope that people will look in and see something. Each poem is a presentation of an idea, as clearly and bravely as 1 can make it. for every poem is also an exposure...

HERO Let me sing a song of love on this mountain peak till they ﬁnd me (The colours of thousands of universes Imploding to softness) blackly Black (my throat my lips) burned away (Silver the cold) ﬁlls me black (the stars soft their tips) black as my stagnant tears (I warm myself) on the cooling turret (clinging) with my charred arms I will require large points of reference now my vision is shattered

Riva Rubin immigrated to Israel in 1963. Her work has been widely published both here and abroad in periodicals and anthologies, as well as in Hebrew translation. Two books. The Poet Killers (1969), and Fifty-One Poems (1978). were published by Eked in Tel Aviv. Another book of poems and a children's book are in press. She has won various awards including a Pen short story award. 1962, and the ﬁrst Dulzin Prize, established in 1981 for creative writing in a language other than Hebrew. She is the only non-Hebrew writer to belong to the Israeli writer's association, and was one of the founding members of the two-year-old Israel Association of Writers in English, which publishes a literary magazine and is intended to provide a framework for such writers and to be a bridge between Israel and the outside world.

Poems printed here courtesy of arc, journal of the Israel Association of Writers in English. Interview and editing by Rima Berns.

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C h a i r m a i i ' s V i s i t Yosef where South African olim have settled

Mockie Friedman, Chairman of the S.A, and was most impressed by their enthusiasm Zionist Federation, recently toured Israel and and pioneering spirit, particularly at Kibbutz c o n f e r r e d w i t h t h e e x e c u t i v e a n d s t a f f o f Te l f e d Tuval and the moshavei ovdim where, despite here. serious economic difﬁculties, our olim are working extremely hard and achieving a great On his return he told the Zionist Record: "I deal of self-realisation and personal visited Raanana. Tuval, Sde Nitzan and Talmei satisfaction."

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She did, however, "live in a world of pictures" for most of her teens. She thought about painting, imagined paintings, painted them in her head. And ﬁnally when she was learning to teach art at college in London, an instructor saw an example of her work and said, "but no, they're magniﬁcent colours!" And Pamela began to paint again.

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The youngsters' interest in the Ma'alot Jubilant klabberjass winners Julius Kopelowitz and programme was sparked by dynamic Elaine's M a r c u s M a n d e l . visit to South Africa last summer.

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Gary, the eldest son of Bernie and Isobel Myers, was head-boy of his school and "won every prize there was to win. He was a very capable young man," said his father. The tennis champ. "He was a nice rugby player and he played for all the right reasons, and it is good that he should be remembered this way." Old Sports Equipment? If you have old tennis racquets, basketballs, footballs, hockey gear or other sports Israel has seven senior rugby teams and games equipment you are willing to donate to children are played each Saturday throughout the winter in underprivileged neighbourhoods, please months. One national team has ﬂown overseas contact Joyce at Telfed, 03-290131. to play in France and Switzerland, in March 1981, a tour in which Gary participated. The Tennis, Anyone? team drew its games in Switzerland and was thoroughly trounced in France, but that is to be Medium strength tennis players wanted for expected when a game is in its infancy, and with Saturday afternoons at Ramat Hasharon. the help of players like Gary Myers it can only Phone Minnie 03-453133, before 8 a.m. or after continue to grow in strength and popularity. 9 p.m.

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On Tuesday, February 7, former South Africans F r o m I v a n I s r a e l ' s C a l e n d a r : living in Jerusalem spent a most interesting day in Ofakim — seeing what South Africa Project Monday, April 30 at 7.30 a.m. Renewal is doing there. We were mo.st lucky to Tiyul by luxury bus to MOUNT GILBOA to see have as our guide Mickey Blumberg. who runs t h e f a b u l o u s B l a c k I r i s e s a n d t h e r e a f t e r t o the Israel United Appeal ofﬁce in Israel. We places of interest in the Yisreei Valley. returned home feeling very proud to see what Project Renewal South Africa is doing. Monday, May 14 at 4.30 p.m. The Jerusalem Coffee Club/Young Adults Inaugural meeting of the SUNDOWNER CLUB with entertainment and refreshments. Group will be holding a Purim Party at the The Club will meet every Monday afternoon moadon HaOtch. Rchov Alkalai 9, Jerusalem, t h e r e a l ' t e r f o r F u n a n d G a m e s . on Sunday, March 18 at 8.30 p.m. For further information contact Avra at 02-630362.

Monday, May 21 at 7.30 a.m. We will be arranging a tiyul to the Judean Hill Tiyul by luxury bus to AKKO — "The Old and area on Wednesday, March 28. For further the New", after which there will be lunch at details, contact Beulah at 02-630801. Manof and a stop at TEL MEGIDDO on the way home. Two Special People in Netanya

For details on any of the above activities, phone We have decided to honour two-exemplary Ivan Israel at 03-320127 at all reasonable hours. former South African citizens of Netanya.Issy P.S.: We held a clothing drive at Amishav II and and Dot Izakowiiz — who have been collected 32 parcels for distribution in Shikun welcoming S.A. Olim to Netanya. and making Hatikva. Should you have clothes to give, them feel right at home, for the past 10 years. kindly contact me. We are planning an informal tea for Tuesday, March 20 at 4.30 p.m., where all those had the fortune to have been associated with Izzy and HAIFA Dot either at the ulpan or afterwards will have the opportunity to pay tribute to these Fifty Years of Aliya! wonderful people. Please try and remember The Haifa Committee is to mark 50 years of little anecdotes to share with everyone present. We look forward to seeing you all. disregarding South African Aliya in Haifa and the north of Israel with a celebration on May 1, 1984. the distance you may have to travel. R e m i n i s c e n c e s , p h o t o s o r a n y o t h e r memorabilia would be welcomed (as a Please contact Jeff Kruger. 053-27072 (home) temporary loan only). Please contact Cheree at or 053-22739 (work); or Jackie Schwartz. 053- 04-641058. 28129.

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JOHANNESBURG Joselowitz, Mendy (accountant). Kalmanovitz, Debbie (student). Applebaum, Glen (student). Kalmanovitz, Itz (accountant). Basson, Jacqueline (student). Kalmanovitz, Marjorie (Rogow) (homemaker). Beagle, Jordan (student). Katz, Isadore (director). Blank. Daryl (student). Katz, Pauline (Gutstein) Borowitz, Jeffrey (student). (homemaker). Burnstein, Bernice (Fridman) Kramer, Mark. (librarian). Lang, Lisa (student). Burnstein, Hilton (businessman). Levy, Sheryl (student). Castle, Kim. Kewis, Bethea (secretary). Cohen. Mandy (student). Miller, Judi Eisenberg, Lesley (social worker). Nathan, Candy (student). Eliasov. Heidi. Pass, Hayley (typist). Favel, David (commercial artist). Putziger. Anne (teacher Fletcher. Ruth (student). Rubin, Alan (accountant). Fredman, Michael (attorney). Rubin, Patricia (Same) (book-keeper). Fredman, Naomi (Greenstein) Sacks. Russel (civil engineer). (occupational therapist). Saffer, Wendy (student) Friedman, Julian (salesman). Saksenberg, Shelly. Friedman. Lindy (Weinberg) Schimmel, Bryan (student). (dancing teacher). Shapiro, Errol (farmer). Froman, Sara (student). Shochat, Jonathon (student). Goldberg, Abigail (student). Spiro, Lauren (student). Goldberg. Daniel (student). Stollard, Barry Grossmark, Alice (homemaker). (photo lithographer). Harari. Shelley (Avraham) (teacher). Valkin, Debbie (student). Hartsman. Ivan (dentist). Wohlman, Maurise Herr, Louise (Mann) (public relations).

Herr, Ronald (dentist). DURBAN Hirson, Darryl. Hirson, Frances. Raiter, Lesley (Chenik) (computer Israelstam, Gary (student). programmer). Jankelow. Pamela (student). Raiter. Raul (chemical engineer). Joselowitz, liana (Jacobson) Schaffer, Martine (student). (fashion designer). Tollman. John (student).

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Benjamin, Anne (secretary). Benator, Jillian (secretary). Berkowitz, David (doctor). Cagnazzo, Janene (secretary). EAST LONDON Chait, Heather (academic). Chait, Norman (student). Black, Dierdre (Pletn) (teacher). Gamaroff, Lesley (insurance clerk). Black, John (teacher). Hirschberg, Peter (student). Hopkins, Simon (professor). SANDTON Hopkins, Yehudit (Gpinberg) (scientist). Farber, Tracey. Itzkin, Joseph. Kerzner, Beverley (fashion Jacobson, Paul (business science). designer). Joffe, Heidi (social worker). Joffe, Rafaefa (speech therapist). BEDFORDVIEW Kaye, Adrianne (book-keeper). Lubinsky, Anthea (saleslady). Eraser, Michel (student). Ment, Michelle (student). Zets, Debra. Miller, Gillian (Lazard) (teacher). RANDBURG Miller, Victor (dentist). Odes, Chanine (student). Ossendryver, Alan (journalist). Price, Janine. Rabinowitz, Jeremy (social scientist). EDENVALE Rabinowitz, Sam (marketing). Shorkend, Lauren (secretary). Zimmerman, Carla. Shuﬂeder, Beverley. HARARE PRETORIA Horwitz, Denise (academic). Davis, Debra (student). Kay, Symonah (student). Paiker, Edna (occupational Pollack, Lara. therapist). DELMAS PORT ELIZABETH Symon, Michael (doctor). Hirsch, Michael (computer Symon, Sadie (Movsowitz) scientist). (homemaker).

GERMISTON BENONI

Kubelin, Carrine Landau, Jonathan. Wigdorowitz, Leon (turner). Melnick, Raphael (student).

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