The dozen refugees gathered at a spot just south of the deep blue waters of the Sea of Galilee to build their new community, safe from the rising tide of antisemitism in Europe. It was an ambitious ...

KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel (AP) — For a few minutes on a recent afternoon, the sun-bathed silence that fills Nadav Tzabari’s neighborhood could almost be mistaken for peace. Then shelling from Israeli ...

That’s why, on October 7th, these communities bore the brunt of the assault. “In the Gaza envelope and also in the northern border, between the terrorists and the army were the kibbutzim,” Shotan said ...

Even socialist kibbutzniks can come to appreciate the benefits of markets when given a chance to directly compare them to socialism. Kibbutzim are Israeli farming communities originally established as ...

Inspired in part by two urban kibbutzim in Jerusalem, and one in Beit Shemesh, the group decided that an urban setting would be their best alternative. Shreiber said that the group chose Sderot as ...

Workers sitting on tractor on Kibbutz Ruhama, Israel, October 2016. Photo courtesy of Ran Ferdman. For the 270 or so Israeli kibbutzim, social cooperatives where people live together and share work ...

DEGANIA ALEF, Israel (Reuters) - This year's harvest was especially merry at Degania Alef, Israel's first kibbutz, founded in 1910 on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. The community celebrated the ...

Jo-Ann Mort is co-author (with Gary Brenner) of "Our Hearts Invented a Place: Can Kibbutzim Survive in Today's Israel?" Here’s a disturbing fact: There are now in Israel twice as many settlers as ...

“If the kibbutzim … will not come back, no one will come,” he says. “That means we are losing our country.” The story of Nahal Oz is central to understanding that connection. In 1951, a newly ...