The first kibbutz, Degania, was founded in 1909.

Raz's story began as a boy growing up in Kibbutz Dorot near the border with Gaza.

In Northeast Israel, in Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu, there is a facility that mass produces those natural enemies.

A group of 35 young Jews began to farm the land, which became the core of Kibbutz Ein Harod.

The Kibbutz was surrounded by cactuses, and there were also ruins. Ruins of the ancient Palestinian village that was here, long before Israel was created and Palestinians were expelled.

David Ben Gurion, Israel s founder and most prominent political personality, spent the last 11 years of his life living in a little wooden house in the desert kibbutz Sde Boker.

As a child studying these eternal masterpieces, Bach's music would intermingle with the singing voices of Muslim prayers from the neighboring Arab village of the northern Kibbutz in Israel where I grew up.

The legendary General Moshe Dayan, who was born in a socialist Kibbutz on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, was no less a skeptic about the chances of coexisting with the Arabs.

CANBERRA The wisest words on the Second Gaza War may have come from an Israeli living in a kibbutz near the Gaza border. If you want to defend me Don t send the Israel Defense Forces for us in order to win, Michal Vasser wrote in Haaretz on November 15.

The element of forced or state sponsored collectivization that was present in many countries during the 20th century led to the impression that collective farms operate under the supervision of the state, but this is not universally true, as shown by the counter example of the Israeli kibbutz.