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A 6 page overview of the Israel kibbutz and the changes which they are currently implementing to remain extant. Bibliography lists five sources.
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and was founded in 1909 in Umm Juni (Nyrop). During the next several decades the movement would catch on and kibbutzes would begin to spring up almost everywhere.
The symbol of "new Israel" and the "new Jew", the kibbutz was once a thriving new approach to communal living. At one time approximately seven percent of Israels population
belonged to a Kibbutz (1Nechemia). Not only were they admired for their perseverance in taming their desert homelands, they were admired as well for the vehement defense of Israel
(Gorenberg). They held a kind of magnetic attraction for new immigrants as well. Now, however, the Kibbutz is in serious decline (Gorenberg). Approximately half of the children
who were born and grew up on kibbutzes now choose to make their lives elsewhere and leave the kibbutz behind forever (2Nechemia). Instead of being regarded as a movement
of the future, it is looked at a almost an antiquity, much like the hippie communes of the 1960s United States are regarded now as well (Gorenberg). The new
philosophies of Israel are simply out of step with the philosophies of yesterday. Instead of looking to Karl Marx for inspiration the Israeli people now look to those like
Milton Friedman (1Nechemia). The kibbutz has simply been left on the wayside. Although they still struggle to maintain their existence,
the kibbutz is essentially left with two alternatives. They can simply plod forward hanging on to their ways and teachings hoping that the approving smile Israeli society will eventually
be turned their way again, or they can incorporate significant changes to their organization and lifestyle in order to mesh more suitably with existing mainstream Israeli philosophies (1Nechemia). It
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