…Kibbutz Hanita sits next to the fence with Lebanon, and in March 1938 there was not a Jew within kilometers of the location when after dark a convoy of trucks loaded with building equipment and dozens of socialist khalutzim/pioneers, male and female in the teens and early 20s who rode up to this high ground location a few score kilometers northeast of Haifa, in a decade when there was no phone system in this area, and the only way to communicate with their base in Haifa was by searchlight semaphore… |