Kibbutz A type of community in Israel where the residents work cooperatively and share responsibilities, including child-rearing. A kibbutz is an Israeli rural community in which the residents share equally in the work and profits. Kibbutzim are...

The kibbutz movement developed in Palestine during the 1930s as part of the Jewish struggle to establish a Jewish state and homeland, and became a vital part of Israel’s early agricultural expansion after the state was established. Originally...

*Israeli agricultural collective. The first kibbutz was founded in 1921 and the kibbutzim movement was an important element in the pioneering strategy of the *Jews in Palestine. The settlements are organised democratically with all possessions held in...

A type of egalitarian community set up in Israel. These largely agricultural societies were strictly controlled by oppressive rules to stamp out INDIVIDUALISM and pay was according to need. Kibbutzim were abandoned by many of their members towards the...

A Kibbutz (Hebrew: קיבוץ Translit.: kibbutz Plural: kibbutzim Translated: gathering, together) is an Israeli collective community. The movement combines socialism and Zionism in a form of practical Labor Zionism, founded at a time when independent...

Forward 11-15-2002 The heart-breaking images of two little boys, deliberately shot dead at point-blank range while cowering in their mother's arms, speak volumes about the cruelty of the threat facing Israelis. As the boys' father wailed afterward, who could do such a thing?...

Baram, northern Israel - "We changed because we were the last one left," says Yacob Zohar, 67, as he laments the abandonment last month by his kibbutz at Baram after 50 years of one of the more radical social experiments of the twentieth century....

Five years after he fled his razed Darfur village, and after jail spells in three countries, Ibrahim has found refuge in an unlikely place: a kibbutz in Israel.The 24-year-old Muslim is one of about 440 Sudanese refugees working in Israeli hotels and on farms while...

The man seen as the mastermind of Hamas' violent takeover of Gaza rushed to the hospital morgue and gently kissed the bloodied forehead of his lifeless son — his second son killed by the Israeli military.Mahmoud Zahar then stood and recited verses from the Muslim...