Kibbutz (a request) Photos

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Ein Hamifratz is an established Kibbutz in the Western Galilee, about 30 kms from Lebanon, 1 hr 9 min (86.9 km)to Jordan, Jerusalem 1 hr 45 min (161.8 km). 4 hr 37 min (445.8 km) to Eilat and the Red Sea, to the Dead sea 154 kms.

A kibbutz is a type of settlement which is unique to Israel. A collective community, traditionally based on agriculture, the first kibbutz was called Deganya and was founded by pioneers in 1910. Regardless of their status, the kibbutz offers a unique insight into Israeli society, and are fascinating places to visit.

The kibbutz is usually a small community that comprises several hundred residents, and its income, at least traditionally, comes from agriculture and industry. Kibbutzniks, as residents are called, work on dairy farms, in orchard and even outside their compounds, putting their full paychecks into the communal pot. And receiving very low wages in return It was like that but as hardships come the
Kibbutz had to change from a 'collective society, to a capitalised style economics. So here is our Kibbutz today. our main industry is a cardboard factory, supplying 27 -30 % to the Israeli Market even exported to Jordan and Egypt. We also have Cows; between 700-1000, Fish pools (mainly Carp or Tilapia, sea bass, sea bream), a garden Nursery, agriculture various crops Wheat ,Maize Melons etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_HaMifratz

http://www.ima.co.il/DefaultEng.aspx

http://www.yamaton.co.il/About-us-1.html

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Some views

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The Kibbutz is very safe we close our main gate at night ,it can be opened by cell phone
( even a woman could walk around the kibutz at night or kids completly safe,no muggins ,no drunks etc )


The (garden ) Nursery small but enough


Some do every day exercise, behind them about 1300 pecan not trees were planted

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At the start of this corona pandemic the young came around to entertain as well as offering sweets snacks ,a little fun.



In the Galilee. How do some Palestinian Arabs live ? Well some build large homes

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In the Galilee@

The Bedouin used to live in these homes but the Reginal Council is building them better modern homes



and now the new homes.



and the typical Arab village.

uploading pictures online

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In our dinning room we celebrate the New Year ,(in September)

“For the first pioneers Judaism was very important, in addition to the ideology of returning to the land of the Bible, working the fields, agriculture, socialism, and humanistic values,” said Mordy Stein, one of the teachers at the institute. “In essence, they were creating the new Jew – the old Jew, the Diaspora Jew, was what they were rejecting, and they rejected Diaspora religion because it represented the old Jew.
“They didn’t want rabbinic Judaism, because they identified it almost mathematically with Exile. They wanted new ways of expressing Jewish values and holidays according to their new understandings about the new Jew, so they started to create traditions that were much closer to the biblical concept, the agricultural concept, the natural feeling of a Jew living in the land of Israel on the land, which had been forgotten over 2,000 years,”

Kibbutz holidays were always centred on the community, rather than the family. They were marked together in the dining hall or on the grass, with the participation of adults and children. The ceremonies drew on Jewish texts, on new Hebrew writing and on universal literature.

Every year as Rosh HaShanah arrives, Jews around the world come together for their annual commemoration of the birth of the world. We contemplate how this year’s celebration will be different than the year before, who will join us at our chag (holiday) table for our festive meal, who we’ll see in shul that we haven’t seen since... well, the last time we gathered as a community

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It looked idyllic until the last picture. Is that a form of punishment, having to listen to folk singers while you dine Balan?

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It can be punishment but then if it starts at 7 pm ,you can always 'bob' along at 8 pm, or have someone call you! Then again all the families are there and even the children go on stage so its up to you They could dance as .....

https://youtu.be/uqbccmI7KVU

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Thanks Balam....loads to take-in - and thanks also for the info - will pore over then this evening.

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good to see a little of your life in Israel - Balam.....very interesting, a completely different life experience from what most of us know - when did you first volunteer and become a permanent resident...and why Ein Hamifratz ?

Cheers.