Tag: Kibbutzim

03Apr 2018

The Israeli Kibbutz, Old News or New Vision?

The above picture is a lemon orchard from Kibbutz Sdot Yam. A Look Back Before Israel became an official state, the kibbutz was already there carving out the boundaries, economy and social structure for the fledgling state to be built on. The Kibbutzniks, as the pioneers that lived and worked together were called, are often […]

Kibbutz Merom Golan
25Aug 2017

Fields of Dreams

Israel’s pastoral icon – the kibbutz – has influenced the lives of thousands of overseas volunteers. In the sixties and seventies, for that young generation just out of school or university, and before “entering the real world”, the hot thing to do – and there was a lot of passion going around in those days […]