Kibbutz

[wanderlust]

A big part of Kibbutz development was built on cheap foreign labour.

My sister and her hippie mates for example

[sinkov]

I get the utopian kibbutzim idea Balan, but I abhor how you Israelis treat the Palestinian kids...

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That Israeli stormtrooper missed a trick there BT, a quick flick of his left boot and he could have smashed that little boy's teeth in. I'll bet he got a right bo11ocking when he got back to barracks.

[Balanbam00]

wanderlust:
Its a give and take relationship, everyone is different I do not know many that have 'hated 'the Kibbutz '***'pieriance ?? where can young people go and have a 1-3 ? months holiday, working some 6 hours then off to the swimming pool ,with others from different countries. On the Sabbath, we used to play the Brits ,Danes and Israelis at 5 a side football, by the swimming pool, guess which group mostly always won? ( The Danes!) Then at nights campfire and booze. On our Kibbutz volunteer web page there are over 400 members, so not bad if so many came and experience Israel and Kibbutz life. For Volunteers the Kibbutz arranges for them trips ,Jerusalem, Golan Heights, the Dead Sea ,Eilat etc . Volunteers did get a small wage ,but then if you stayed in the Kibbutz everything like food in the dinning room was free, also they were supplied work clothes, beer wines etc, they bought.
"Hundreds of thousands of volunteers lived and worked in kibbutzim from the 1960s through to present times. For many of those who came for a taste of the unique cooperative communities in Israel, their kibbutz experience proved to be a watershed in their lives, a never to be forgotten positive period in their travels. We want to pool those memories, energies and ties during this very special centenary celebration, and hopefully our nostalgia for days gone by will bring about renewed interest in Israel and especially the kibbutz movement.
Figures recently published by the kibbutz movement show that volunteers from Britain were the largest number from any one country. An astounding 50,000 Brits have lived, worked and partied in one of the 270 kibbutzim since those communities opened their gates to outsiders in the early 1960s, with the largest wave at any one time having been during the 1967 Six-Day-War.
Surprisingly, the second largest number of volunteers came from South Africa with 40,000, Swedes in third place with 25,000, Denmark 20,000 and Germany 15,000.
Hundreds of volunteers over the years have married kibbutz folk and settled down to a life on the farm, others have settled in Israeli cities. Among those who went home one can find famous actors, artists, musicians and politicians, authors and journalists. ( our Boris Johnson, stayed and worked in a kibbutz too)

[Balanbam00]

A volunteer from the USA tells about her kibbutz. If you know anybody sons or daughters that want a great time! Welcome.

[Balanbam00]

A Danish girl:

[The Bedlington Terrier]

They only went over for a free shag Balan. Have you been sniffing?

[Balanbam00]

BT. Please do not give away the secrets of a kibbutz because of your knowledge ,it could be that right away 2,000 young Burnley fans could read this and depart on their mystery tour ,to explore the adventure and experience of young ladies from all over the world ,in fact so highly rated ,it is better than what was the Mecca dancing at Burnley or Blackburn, volunteers get paid so what is the problem? ''Money fur nothin and the chicks are free!''

[The Bedlington Terrier]

BT. Please do not give away the secrets of a kibbutz because of your knowledge ,it could be that right away 2,000 young Burnley fans could read this and depart on their mystery tour ,to explore the adventure and experience of young ladies from all over the world ,in fact so highly rated ,it is better than what was the Mecca dancing at Burnley or Blackburn, volunteers get paid so what is the problem? ''Money fur nothin and the chicks are free!''

Sorry Balan, jealousy got the better of me!

[wanderlust]

I'll be having a word with my sister

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I'll be having a word with my sister

Lol! She will say, "What goes on in a kibbutz, stays in a kibbutz!"