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‖ nahal|nəˈhɑːl|
Also with capital initial.
[Heb., f. initials of No‘ar Ḥalutzi Loḥem, Pioneer and Military Youth.]
The name of a military youth organization in Israel, used to designate an agricultural settlement manned by members of this organization. Also attrib.
1963D. R. Elston Israel ii. 79 Nahal members are under no compulsion to continue as agricultural settlers once their period of service is over. 1964L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xlii. 272 Our people in the nahals have got to pack a punch. 1969Times 15 Nov. 7/7 The J.N.F. directly promotes the Israeli war effort by helping to establish nahal military-agricultural colonies. 1972I. T. Naamani Israel ix. 131 In 1950, Pioneer and Military Youth (Noar Halutzi Lohem, or Nahal) was founded. This was an organisation of young people who wished to serve in the army as units and later continue as a group to establish for themselves or help others establish agricultural settlements on the borders. Usually the members of Nahal received several months of intensive military training and then were assigned to a frontier village, where..they underwent rigid agricultural tutoring. 1973Guardian 21 Apr. 3/6 It has always been an axiom of Israeli planning that borders must be peopled... The first 12 villages have already been established. All were started as ‘nahal’ settlements by young soldiers, combining military and agricultural training. |