How To Use Kibbutz In A Sentence

  • She couldn't be more of a sabra, growing up working in the kibbutz cowshed on Mount Gilboa.
  • I know a little something about this too, having participated in an ulpan (Hebrew immersion) on a kibbutz as well as in several Israeli Army programs for non-Israeli citizens. Robert David Jaffee: Israel Is More Than Real
  • ‘It's hard to believe now, but we used to actually drink the water and go swimming with the children without worrying,’ the 83-year-old Israeli kibbutznik said.
  • To the kibbutznik, the story is one of heroic volunteers establishing themselves in the face of a hostile population.
  • While in a kibbutz, I saw a poster advertising a summer's program at Hebrew University in desert zoology, and I enrolled.
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  • Thousands of young Brits have worked on Israel's kibbutzim and moshavim and retain a deep affection for the place. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • In the past 20 years, the kibbutzes have lost one-fourth of their population and members today number 120,000, a small fraction of Israel's 7 million people.
  • I grew up on a border kibbutz in Israel.
  • Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men look at a forest fire that broke out near kibbutz Beit Oren in the north of Israel.
  • She fell in love with a man who had grown up on the kibbutz, and became pregnant. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was to be the first British victory in the Second World War and he did it all with irregulars, including kibbutz volunteers he had trained in Palestine and had specially brought down at his request; and it was done, once again, through his old protector Archibald Wavell, whom at this point had become a full General and Commander-in-Chief of all British Forces in the Middle East. Robert Eisenman: Who Killed Orde Wingate?
  • On the kibbutz they farmed avocado, bananas and dates, and ran a dairy farm and a small industrial tools factory.
  • She travelled to France and went on to live on a kibbutz in Israel where she experienced the realities of living in a socialist constructed life.
  • Old Arab men wearing keffiyehs swayed on their canes as they talked to their Jewish friends inside the kibbutz grounds.
  • The article points out a couple of interesting things, one of which is explicit: that the renewed kibbutzim are not quite for the most part run inthe way that traditional kibbutzim were run, but rather as, “a kind of suburbanized version of it.” Kibbutz revival? | Jewschool
  • His example of the kibbutzim is most likely just the omega in the largest range of political possibilities he can think of. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why do Libertarians Like Federalism?
  • In the kibbutz life is different. Times, Sunday Times
  • My idea was to be born again as a pioneer and hero on a kibbutz. Times, Sunday Times
  • The progression of kibbutzes from socialist ideals to capitalism tells an interesting tale of structural change.
  • Coops in Israel are part of a broad cooperative sector that also includes credit, housing, and consumer cooperatives and the famous cooperative agricultural settlements, kibbutzim and moshavim.
  • The kibbutznik who is bringing order to a hodgepodge of classic Jewish texts is Nurit Feinstein, 25, a native of the kibbutz, which is just north of the Haifa suburbs.
  • Lately kibbutzniks and volunteers have started to restore the system, as an archaeological attraction.
  • Some went to live on collective farms, the kibbutzim, which were among Israel's most imaginative innovations.
  • Was this not the very identity of the State of Israel in the first place—the land of the kibbutz and the moshav, of hard-won irrigation for communities in the desert? The Chosen Peoples
  • In the Geneva Accord they suggested to widen the Gaza Strip by 2-3 kilometers to the west, toward the Israeli kibbutzim, which is again a problem, but what it will give? Undefined
  • And so I arrived in Israel, still 19, to work on a kibbutz, and found myself among people who had no means of checking anything I said.
  • On graduating from high school, he spent 11 years as a kibbutznik in the Valley of Jezre'el.
  • All major decisions are taken by a general assembly in which each adult member of a kibbutz has the right to vote.
  • I signed over my royalty cheques to the kibbutz. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is this inhibition that is allegedly displayed, in the well-known case, by those brought up in the kibbutz.
  • Old Arab men wearing keffiyehs swayed on their canes as they talked to their Jewish friends inside the kibbutz grounds.
  • Many kibbutzim cannot afford to offer living quarters, food and wages for hordes of volunteers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps my stay on the kibbutzim was a bit of a cheat after all those years. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was as part of this larger socialist vision that the kibbutzniks set out to wipe away gender.
  • Today, only 27 kibbutzim take volunteers, hosting 1,200 young people between them each year. Times, Sunday Times
  • The other 10 percent live in kibbutzim and moshavim (communal farms) or in small villages.
  • They were religious or secular, Ashkenazi or Sephardic; from a city, a kibbutz or a moshav; Russian or native-born, etc.
  • In 1941, ninety-seven percent of all female workers in cooperative settlements (moshavim) were married, and fifty-nine percent of female workers in kibbutzim were married as compared to thirty-seven percent in the cities. Women in the Yishuv Workforce.
  • All major decisions are taken by a general assembly in which each adult member of a kibbutz has the right to vote.
  • Although I completed a kibbutz ulpan (or Hebrew immersion) program years ago as well as Sar-El, many of the men in boot camp seem to look at me skeptically. Robert David Jaffee: Punting on Israeli Army Boot Camp
  • In most cases, the sites of destroyed villages are not submerged under housing projects, but have been covered over by national forests or have been handed over to economically stagnant kibbutzim.
  • It was a mixed experience: I didn't get along particularly well with other kibbutzniks, but I enjoyed the work and I admired the Israelis, particularly those my age.
  • Settlers can be made to experience similar communal identities in intimate residential communities within the Green Line, including Israel's many kibbutzim and moshavim, as well as the relatively recent gated "communal neighborhoods. Mira Sucharov: West Bank Settlers' Buy-in
  • Two months ago, the author was invited to visit Israel and had a chance to experience the unique Israeli way of life in a kibbutz.
  • They learnt to recognise words that were familiar to them — like shalom, kibbutz and barmitzvah. Times, Sunday Times
  • A moshav is a cooperative settlement, though not all-out cooperative like a kibbutz. Moshavalicious - Danya Ruttenberg
  • Today, the Golan Winery is a company owned by four kibbutzes and four moshavs.
  • He grew up as a kibbutznik in the Galil, the son of swamp-draining idealists from the Ukraine.
  • Moreover, she says, the way decisions are made today about building in kibbutzim does not permit a real participation of the potential occupants.
  • Today kibbutz life is more relaxed, tolerant and at peace with human nature. Times, Sunday Times
  • Slowly, I turned round and round to look into the face of each of the kibbutzniks, one by one.
  • The crowd, solemn and tense, represented a heterogeneous cross-section of the Jewish population of the Yishuv: kibbutz members in sandals and khaki, socialist intellectuals in suits and wire-rimmed glasses, South African immigrants in their traditional garb, religious Zionists, clean-shaven and in skullcaps, and even ultra-Orthodox rabbis, bearded and behatted. 21 « May « 2008 « Niqnaq
  • He pointed out that the rural cooperatives known as kibbutzim that were once home to Israel's secular middle classes and produced the bulk of its officer corps had been on the wane since the early 1980s. CounterPunch
  • In fact, Israelis who established the 21 Jordan Valley settlements, for example, were primarily not religious settlers, but secular men and women who founded kibbutzim and moshavim for security reasons.
  • The counseling department also provided counselors for kibbutzim, and later to moshavim, to help with growing vegetables. WIZO: Women's International Zionist Organization (1920-1970).
  • One of the kibbutzniks even taught us about making beautiful durable houses out of mud.
  • The young kibbutzniks are comprised of two groups, one from veteran kibbutzim and the other from cities.
  • For those who dislike ideology, the great thing about kibbutzim is that they're such a lousy idea. Zion's Vital Signs
  • On kibbutzes and farms, apiculturists produce more than 3,500 tons of honey annually from 90,000 beehives, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics.
  • Kibbutz communities initially were established as part of the pioneer movement to bring Jews from around the world to Israel.
  • Kibbutz mothers who hoped to treat everyone the same thus also wanted to express their individual characters by molding their own kids.
  • He helps the three or four kibbutzniks handle the crops, with extra help only being needed at harvest time.
  • In the epilogue, one example of socialism that ‘worked’ is held up in the kibbutzim of Israel.
  • The kibbutzniks have their own living units but meals are taken together in the communal hall.
  • Two months ago, the author was invited to visit Israel and got a chance to experience the unique Israeli way of life in a kibbutz .
  • My idea was to be born again as a pioneer and hero on a kibbutz. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other studies of kibbutzim have found helping behavior between organizations that share ideologies.
  • Below the trench is a lace negligee of barbed wire, all the barbed wire the kibbutz had in 1948, and beyond that are Egyptian tanks, just where they stopped when they could go no farther. Zion's Vital Signs
  • Though it was primarily oriented towards city workers, inhabitants of the communal kibbutzim and other semi-collective settlements (moshavim) also became members of the Histadrut. Histadrut.
  • It wasn't until last year that the kibbutzniks of Degania, ardent Zionists, voted to build a synagogue.
  • Explore the workings of democracy in a vibrant community; get to know the kibbutz through its leaders; learn about the history of the kibbutz movement.
  • Yet at the same time, especially since the baby boomers came on the scene, many American women have treated the experience of motherhood as an exercise in self-expression - indeed, they do so more fervently than the kibbutzniks.
  • Paths lined with eucalyptus planted by the early Jewish settlers lead to thriving kibbutzim, to guesthouses and fine restaurants.
  • As the kibbutzim grew prosperous, the idealism faded.
  • A number of the aliyah kibbutzim relocated to farmland expropriated from the Germans by the Allied occupying forces and prepared themselves for communal life and working the land in pre-State Palestine. She'erit ha-Peletah: Women in DP Camps in Germany.
  • But now that it's over, the kibbutzniks and uprooted settlers have to find ways to live together.
  • Many of my friends and family worked in kibbutzim. Times, Sunday Times
  • Another case, seen as a natural experiment, involved the marital choices of Israeli sabra, co-reared kibbutz children.
  • Similarly, the kibbutzim and moshavim joined the Histadrut on a collective basis, which also included men and women. Histadrut.
  • Residents said that they could occasionally hear sirens from a nearby kibbutz. Times, Sunday Times
  • All I know is that when I was 17 I went to Israel to work on a kibbutz for seven months, and when I came back I was half a foot taller, and my voice had broken.
  • Over the next few days Rachel and I visited a “moshav” a collective where each family had its own cottage and a couple of kibbutzim. Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
  • The kibbutznik, however, ended up achieving distinction not as a farmer but as a soldier.
  • As for Isaac Erter himself, his ashes are buried in a cemetery near the kibbutz where he spent his idealistic youth. LOADED QUESTIONS
  • Our first night is spent in one of the oldest kibbutzim in Israel, En Gev in the Golan Heights.
  • They are neither cutesy, comedic Yiddishers nor noble, chiseled, ascetically moral kibbutzniks. Bradley Burston: Winslet, 'Waltz,' and How Hollywood Likes Its Jews
  • Jerry Lampen/Reuters STRIKES CONTINUE: An Israeli man blew a shofar, which is a ram's horn, near Kibbutz Nir Am as plumes of smoke rose above the northern Gaza Strip Sunday. Today's Photos: Jan. 12
  • They had a cosmopolitan, mysterious air about them that other kibbutzniks had not.
  • The pioneering moshavs and kibbutzes first planted vines in 1976, and initially the grapes were sold to the large coastal cooperatives.
  • Just moments earlier, after hearing shots in the kibbutz, she had placed a call to her ex-husband, Avi.
  • During the fighting, a Palestinian sniper shot and killed an Ecuadoran volunteer who was working in a potato field at an Israeli Kibbutz (communal farm) about 100 meters from the Gaza border.
  • She went to Israel for seven months to work on a kibbutz, came home and trained as a masseur.
  • The kibbutzniks would then be compensated for this transaction at 51 percent of its value.
  • After graduating he cofounded a kibbutz, working with others to transform deserts into green pastures and orchards.
  • Anyone who wants to can, in a free society, even join a voluntary commune, like Brook Farm, or an Israeli kibbutz, and lead as blissfully communistic a life as he or she wishes.

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