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By Varda Branfman

Summer in Kibbutz: A First Meeting with the Land

March 2, 2006, by

The fields were on fire with the afternoon light. I stood on a bluff and watched how it spread all the way down to the sea where the light flickered blue. Every afternoon I went alone to the library and read the English books I found there. On the way, I would stop, and sit