Kibbutzim in the Age of Israeli Capitalism: A Move Away from Collectivism

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Introduction

When the first kibbutz, Dengania, was founded on the shores of Lake Galilee in 1910, there were only around 60,000 Jews in Palestine, as compared to a population of Arabs numbering around half a million. Kibbutzim, a word in Hebrew that means gatherings, were communal collective farming settlements that provided…