sabras

Compare the neurotic Jews of the West with the tough home-grown Jews (called "sabras": cactus) of Israel.

Muti 2008

Then the sabras " — Jews born in Israel — "started coming in.

The Maestro's Israel Bonds David Mermelstein 2011

These were muscular, assured young men, perfect sabras, native-born Israelis whose mighty hands had evidently reclaimed and rebuilt the Promised Land.

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

These were muscular, assured young men, perfect sabras, native-born Israelis whose mighty hands had evidently reclaimed and rebuilt the Promised Land.

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

To us, Israelis, those unstooped sabras straight out of the Negev, seemed another species altogether with their sexy, hair-on-their-legs kibbutz girls and blazing Uzis.

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

In the current Israeli political constellation, these two men, and these two parties -- a volatile alliance of ultra-secular Russian-born immigrants and ultra-Orthodox sabras with roots in the Muslim world and the Mediterranean -- are the effective veto both to the peace process as a whole and to a settlement freeze of any substance.

Israel's Titanic Moment: Does Obama Want Netanyahu's Head? 2010

These were muscular, assured young men, perfect sabras, native-born Israelis whose mighty hands had evidently reclaimed and rebuilt the Promised Land.

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

In the current Israeli political constellation, these two men, and these two parties -- a volatile alliance of ultra-secular Russian-born immigrants and ultra-Orthodox sabras with roots in the Muslim world and the Mediterranean -- are the effective veto both to the peace process as a whole and to a settlement freeze of any substance.

Bradley Burston: Israel's Titanic Moment: Does Obama Want Netanyahu's Head? 2010

In the current Israeli political constellation, these two men, and these two parties -- a volatile alliance of ultra-secular Russian-born immigrants and ultra-Orthodox sabras with roots in the Muslim world and the Mediterranean -- are the effective veto both to the peace process as a whole and to a settlement freeze of any substance.

Bradley Burston: Israel's Titanic Moment: Does Obama Want Netanyahu's Head? Bradley Burston 2010

With bitter irony, a survivor of the concentration camps explains to his friend that, despite their being involved in the Israeli war effort, they are not like the sabras, who had not been forced, as they were, to experience the atrocities of the Holocaust: “They are different.”

Israeli Women's Writing in Hebrew: 1948-2004. 2009