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  • While the government assumed that women would find it harder to acquire jobs in the developing economy, the Zionist Movement considered the male halutz more valuable than the halutzah to the development of the Yishuv.

    Women in the Yishuv Workforce. 2009

  • Deutch, who was born in Riga, immigrated to the United States in 1924 after having spent seven years as a halutz [pioneer] in Palestine.

    Joyce Jacobson Kaufman. 2009

  • Her father, Herman Margolis (1872 – 1959), a halutz from Russia, had gone to Palestine in the 1890s and subsequently studied agronomy in Berlin.

    Laura Margolis Jarblum. 2009

  • The ceremonies expressed the daily life and dreams of halutz society, echoing ancient Biblical tradition while excluding many of the elements of traditional religious ritual.

    Folk Dance, Israeli. 2009

  • To cry would have been inappropriate, not fitting a halutz, while artificial joy was impossible.

    JPost.com - Front Page 2010

  • Should Resign Immediately general halutz and the war

    unknown title 2009

  • Should Resign Immediately general halutz and the war

    unknown title 2009

  • Should Resign Immediately general halutz and the war

    unknown title 2009

  • September 18th, 2008 at 3: 27 am re: mofaz being the "architect" of Israel's failure in the 2nd Lebanon war - it's not exactly clear to me what you mean. he wasn't army chief (halutz), he wasn't defense minister

    English-writing Israeli-bloggers 2008

  • Explaining the alleged profundity of “word-symbols” such as kevuzah, kibbutz, halutz, and Meshek ha-Po’alot (women’s training farm), Samuel asserted that the Yishuv revealed the “extraordinary folk-depths of the (Zionist) movement, the deep and inexhaustible sources of a renaissance which, in effect, is only at its beginning.”

    Pioneer Women in the United States. 2009

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