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' gathering, clustering '; pl.: kibbutzim קִבּוּצִים / קיבוצים) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. [1]
Many kibbutzim also went through a process of privatization, and higher education became prevalent, together with a decrease in the prominence of agriculture. [12] Ora Aviezer explains: [13] Collective education can be regarded as a failure. The family as the basic social unit has not been abolished in kibbutzim.
Modern kibbutzim have populations from 100 to 1,000, are secular and have embraced capitalism. Foreign employees, especially from Thailand, now work the land. Today, only 30 kibbutzim still take ...
The Kibbutz Movement (Hebrew: התנועה הקיבוצית, HaTnu'a HaKibbutzit) is the largest settlement movement for kibbutzim in Israel. It was formed in 1999 by a partial merger of the United Kibbutz Movement and Kibbutz Artzi and is made up of approximately 230 kibbutzim.
The following is a list of kibbutzim (Hebrew: קיבוצים) in Israel, [1] grouped by affiliation, with their year of foundation in brackets. In 2004, there were 266 kibbutzim with population 116,000 or 2.1% of the Jewish population of Israel. [2] In 2010, there were 270 kibbutzim in Israel with population of 126,000. [3]
How a dozen refugees fleeing antisemitism in eastern Europe created a model community that became fundamental to Israel’s identity.
KIBBUTZIM RE’IM/BE’ERI, Israel — The tractors that recently dug graves are being prepared to farm again. Three weeks after the unprecedented Hamas attack in which residents of kibbutzim were ...
The Religious Kibbutz Movement (Hebrew: הקיבוץ הדתי, HaKibbutz HaDati) is an organizational framework for Orthodox kibbutzim in Israel.Its membership includes 22 communities, 16 of them traditional kibbutzim, and 6 others in the category of Moshav shitufi, meaning that they have no communal dining hall or children's house but maintain a shared economy.