kibbutznik

"He was a kibbutznik, a general, everything you wanted in an Israeli leader," she said.

He did not embarrass the kibbutznik, if that had been his hope.

The kibbutznik's mouth was open; other than that, he looked strangely dignified.

According to one Israeli kibbutznik who visited the area immediately after the expulsion:

Tell him to go to Hamashbir, buy some new clothes-nothing fancy, something a kibbutznik would wear.

The third to die was an apple-cheeked kibbutznik named Kobi Altman.

Irrelevant, too, was the makeup of her audience - an African or an American, a kibbutznik or a millionaire.

He's a former kibbutznik.

"No point," the kibbutznik said.

He was the anti-Netanyahu, a rough-hewn kibbutznik without his predecessor's tastes for fine cigars, good wines and television appearances.

"Water supply," a kibbutznik suggested.

Short arms crossed calmly over his chest, Ehud Barak, a 57-year-old kibbutznik commander, has established himself as the national tough guy.

The archaeologists winced at the image as a kibbutznik slam- med up, growling, "You gonna sit here all day?"

Yosef Stern, 73, Auschwitz survivor, veteran kibbutznik and erstwhile freedom fighter, was there at the time.

Anticipating opposition attacks, Mr. Barak portrayed himself as a kibbutznik patriot and career military man who had devoted his life to Israel's defense.

Trouble started when Paul Zodman, stroll ing away from headquarters at sunset, asked a kibbutznik "Where's the synagogue, young man?"

"He does," Eliav said, pointing to the kibbutznik, "and the fascinating thing is that he believes it exactly as I do, in a non- racial sense.

In Tel Aviv, she meets German Jewish capitalists as cynical, in their way, as the old Soviet kibbutznik.

It is about the adventures of a kibbutznik, dispatched to bring a tractor from the port, who at every step meets various and sundry obstacles and adventures.

Though she grew up on a kibbutz, she is no kibbutznik; indeed, she is selfish, confused and utterly devoid of the idealism that defined her mother's generation.

Dayan combined a kibbutznik's secular identity and pragmatism with a deep love and appreciation for the Jewish people and the land of Israel-but not a religious identification.

"The young don't want everything in common," said Mr. Zaks, who at 53 is the classic icon of a kibbutznik with his trim figure, healthy tan and dusty sandals.

Yehudit Zaidenberg, a kibbutznik who belongs to a feminist peace group, said she felt a strong need to keep the rift between Jewish and Israeli Arabs from widening.

"In the past, there was a very strong team of leadership," said his friend, Avi Cohen, a third-generation kibbutznik who is sales manager at a plastics factory the kibbutz operates.

To get those things, they wagered - with the choice of Mr. Barak - on an old model: a kibbutznik and decorated general who to them seemed capable of both toughness and compassion.