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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end Ms Legal Chronicle
t December 24, 1943
Twelve Against the Desert
trees and gardens? In all this "And the peace of your sons, they take the shilling and bite it
How Palestine's Pioneering Youth, Aided by J. N. F., spaciousness, there is so little your camels and your wife."
with their teeth to make sure it
We must learn their lang,uag( , isn't a fake coin. The Bedouin
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green vegetation, so few trees.
Now they ask about our health know their ways, customs and children ride to the tents, and
Home's Agricultural Base During War
and "Will you build here an- life. Those who do not know their they're proud of this long ride in
By ZVI NEGBI
other Tel Aviv and will it be language are considered ignorant- the "Trumbil".
But when will our children be
Editor's Note : Palestine's map is constantly being (lotted with new good for all of us? When the uses. Our members prepared able to come? When will this
agricultural settlements as a result of the continuous effort by Jews will come there will be themselves
long come
ago. out to the place swarm with Israel's chil-
The women
the ,Jewish National Fund and the Keren Hayesod to extent! water." Our die has been cast,
the agricultural base of the Jewish National Home. Of the this will be our dwelling place rm.(' to meet the wagon at sun- dren?
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Twelve, as the number of the
39 settlements that have been established since the outbreak and the home for many sons of set, when we return from work.
of the war, 7 are located in the Negev, the yet unexplored Israel that will yet be gathered They bring eggs to sell to the
"Combaniah" (Kibbutz in Ara- bibles of Israel, arc the Bach-
from all corners of the earth.
Southern part of Palestine which is destined to play a decisive come,
In the
the in rains
will
in winter
anger and
storm,
and bic ). They have faith in us, we urim who are weaving the tale
part in the upbuilding of a Jewish Commonwealth, if modern this' a year with much rain— wouldn't cheat them, nevertheless of this new Ilityashvuth.
engineering is permitted to bring the power and blessings of
distant waters to the dry lands of ,this great area. The author they will wash away everything in
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of this article is one of the 12 settlers who took part in the
path. But in the summer 1
recent founding of the settlement Gevuloth, not far from tim their
s
as well, when you dig a mall
Egyptian border. The Kibbutz whose settlement he describes hole and water gathers, the
here is affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair movement and Bedouin comes and waters his I
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consists of Palstinian-born pioneers as well as those who came flock. And the rains-8-9 inches
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in a regular year, and how much
from Germany.
year of draught? The fields
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On the 7th day of lyar, the streams and rivers? Why here in
a were sown this year—they
that
small group arrived at its destina- there is space !
only brought 10 kilo of oats per
Dwelling about us are Bed- dunam. The weeds covered the
tion. Twelve bachurim pitched
their tent and the camp was ouins, each family with its tent,
erected on the sandy bill that cameis a nd flock of sheep. We earth
a thick
carpet,
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where like
, there
are no
weeds and
the
overlooked broad fields. On the make the acquaintance of our wind carries the sand and there
south, one could see sandy hills, neighbors, the large tribe of T, are thick clouds of dust.
and in the distance, just a few which dwells in this entire section
But in this very land there are
kilometers away, lay the border and across on the other side is hidden treasures. How shall we
find them? What will be our
of our neighboring. country, Egypt.
Many questions plague uS: Is method of cultivation? How shall
Egypt. Before us spread our
homeland from Dan to the south- there a definite and permanent we store the water in the earth
border here? Won't it always be and what will the earth bring
" ern border.
This plot of earth had never open to robbers and thieves from forth We listen quiveringly to
known the touch of Hebrew over there? How will they meet the land. We shall harness science
hands. We pass on the from the us workers? What will be the to our aid and together we shall
road of X and ride into the ex- meeting between the culture of knock against the closed earth,
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pansive desert. How vast are the the desert and the culture that Before we came, we thought
open spaces and how far the we shall bring? How will their this land burns and cats its dwell-
horizon. Is this the land that we landscape take to our permanent • ers, and lo and behold, there are
knew ; its hills and valleys, itoneshek with its homes, terraces, cool winds from the sea. The
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sand swirls upward till it hides
the sun, and at night there is a
I
thick mist. In the month of June
there were 26 nights of mist, so
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we recorded in our observation
I
diary. There is already a meteor-
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oligical station, and the winds,
humidity, heat, rain and moisture
are all recorded.
Meanwhile we put up a stock-
AND
ade of mud bricks, made from
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the earth of the place, a house,
a shed for the machines, and a
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room for ammunition. This point
was given permission to have
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guard it, and we have been
"blessed" with visits from officers
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of the army. Even someone from
the colonial office came and when
he left he said in Hebrew, "Sha- v_-_-, _ _
Mom. good luck, Moshavah".
In the evening our radio was
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inaugurated . . . A radio in this
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distant southern corner. "Kol
Yerushalayim" and the announcer
talks and talks, and the names
and
. "That government of the people, by the people,
.
sound so strange. Everyone is
surprised and eager. Suddenly .. .
for the people shall not perish from this Earth,"
Sicily, yes, Sicily, already a new
front was opened in Europe and
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we did not know. Far away from
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the Yishuv we celebrated a day
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Our wagon is called a "Trum-
bil-auto" by the Bedouins. It
- - - - -- , lowly wades through the sand
and brings water to the camp.
The teamster sits upon the wagon
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leisurely, he came to us from
distant America, and he carries
on a conversation with the Bed-
ouin children that gather about
him. He is sure he reigns his
Arabic, and the conversation de-
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