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Kibbutz
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Looking to slow life down and join a kibbutz? It’ll cost you
By
Zev Stub
Once Zionist experiments in communal living, today’s kibbutz communities still have much to offer… for those with the right mindset and deep enough pockets
May 30, 2025, 8:35 am
Looking to slow life down and join a kibbutz? It’ll cost you
Once Zionist experiments in communal living, today’s kibbutz communities still have much to offer… for those with the right mindset and deep enough pockets
By
Zev Stub
March 4, 2025, 8:28 am
Bedouin and Jewish residents who evacuated from north return home to mourn and rebuild
With schools now open, the communities of Arab al-Aramshe and neighboring Kibbutz Adamit in the Western Galilee rethink their ‘naivete’ about dangers beyond the border
By
Diana Bletter
January 8, 2025, 1:37 am
Inside the Lebanon-border closed military zone, kibbutz members prepare to start over
The tenuous Hezbollah ceasefire is still in place as Hanita and Rosh Hanikra residents make rare visits to their homes to salvage what few belongings are not shattered
By
Diana Bletter
December 2, 2024, 4:34 pm
Residents returning to Israel’s decimated far north worry their neighbors won’t come home
Some members of Kibbutz Manara return to discover widespread damage; in Kiryat Shmona, a former mayor says there should never have been an evacuation at all despite the dangers
By
Diana Bletter
November 30, 2024, 10:16 am
Northerners are wary of returning to border communities: ‘The ceasefire is rubbish’
Many residents of battered border kibbutz communities no longer have homes, others are fearful that Hezbollah will return to threaten them
By
AP
and
ToI Staff
October 21, 2024, 9:30 am
In the absence of state funding, northern residents build their own shelters
With many in the north living in older homes without reinforced rooms, some residents spend small fortunes to construct fortified rooms as war with Hezbollah intensifies
By
Omer Sharvit
September 25, 2024, 11:38 pm
‘That could have been us,’ say Kibbutz Sa’ar residents after direct rocket hit on house
Residents describe how their pastoral home has been turned into a community of fear, where they have almost no time to respond to warning sirens of incoming rockets
By
Diana Bletter
August 21, 2024, 10:32 am
A northern kibbutz on the edge of the evacuated zone is Israel’s new de facto border
Kibbutz Gesher Haziv residents learn to deal with a thorny reality as they try to live their daily lives alongside the threat of Hezbollah attacks
By
Diana Bletter
June 4, 2024, 12:39 pm
Hostages’ families share favorite Shavuot recipes as they hold out hope for loved ones
Hostages forum releases cookbook ‘Shavuot of Longing, Their Recipes on Our Table,’ as part of fundraising efforts to secure the freedom of those held captive in Gaza
By
Jessica Steinberg
February 5, 2024, 4:19 pm
Hostages’ relatives gain political clout as war reshapes electoral landscape
Active figures in hostage protests emerge as potential Knesset candidates, with left-wing parties likely natural fit for relatives of captives who mainly come from kibbutzim
By
Reuters
and
ToI Staff
October 17, 2023, 1:38 pm
From his hospital bed, injured kibbutznik recounts how his community fended off Hamas
Civil defense team member Nadav talks of harrowing battle with terrorists, his wife’s terrible wait to hear if he was alive and the long recovery ahead
By
Renee Ghert-Zand
October 9, 2023, 8:24 pm
Survivors share accounts of encounters with terrorists, and an escape from Gaza
Residents of the Gaza border communities recount what happened to them, in and around their homes, in the terrifying hours of the Hamas invasion
By
Jessica Steinberg
June 11, 2023, 11:45 am
‘The first startups’: Kibbutzim repurposed through embrace of new industries
Communities founded as models of socialist society have since largely shed collectivist past, with residents touting their ‘innovative approach’ to contemporary challenges
By
Alexandra Vardi
February 18, 2023, 8:26 am
Private hot tubs and pools abound at Jerusalem hills hotel named for Labor Zionist
Gordonia Hotel, the latest iteration of Kibbutz Ma’ale Hahamisha’s 80-year hospitality operation, draws guests who want views and pillow menus
By
Jessica Steinberg
November 28, 2022, 8:36 pm
Bird flu detected in Israel in 2nd case within days
Nature authorities closely monitoring wild birds, weighing whether to stop feeding cranes in northern Israel to prevent crowding, avoid risk of last year’s mass infection
By
Sue Surkes
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