Trouble on the Kibbutz
Tom Bethell, in Reason (Oct. 1990),
Trouble On the Kibbutz
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To Israelis, the kibbutz is as vital a national symbol as the family farm is to Americans. Like the American family farm, the kibbutz is an ideal that has been sustained a few; at no time has more than three per- cent of Israel's population lived on a kib- butz. Now, according to Bethell, a Reason contributing editor, kibbutzim share one other similarity with family farms...