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A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel where members share property, resources, and labor to live and work together. These communities have been historically significant in Israel's development and represent a distinctive model of communal living based on shared ownership and mutual cooperation.
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- History
- The first kibbutzim
- During the British Mandate
- Development of kibbutz movements
- State-building
- After the establishment of the state
- Decline and restructuring
- Ideology
- Communal life
- Children
- Child rearing
- Higher education and intellectuality
- Gender equality
- Social life
- The dining hall as social centre
- Private property
- Free-loaders; lack of privacy
- Decision-making
- Job rotation
- Sex and marriage
- Culture and arts
- Crime
- Psychological aspects
- Emotional involvement
- Private property
- Group pressure to conform
- Economics
- Types
- Legal reforms after privatisation
- Kibbutzim outside Israel
- Kibbutz Buchenwald
- Kibbutzim in France
- Legacy
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
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A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / , in English also kibbutzes) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism. In recent decades, some kibbutzim have been privatized and changes have been made in the communal lifestyle. A member of a kibbutz is called a kibbutznik ( / ; plural kibbutznikim or kibbutzniks), the suffix -nik being of Slavic origin.