This is the Forward’s coverage of the kibbutz movement and kibbutzim which are collective communities traditionally based around agriculture in Israel.
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Fast Forward 5 Israeli Soldiers Killed During Thwarted Attack on Kibbutz Nahal Oz
The Israel Defense Forces confirmed the death of five more Israeli soldiers, which occurred during the infiltration of gunmen into a southern kibbutz through a tunnel from Gaza. The five soldiers were killed during the previously reported thwarted attack on Kibbutz Nahal Oz, located near the Gaza border, on Monday afternoon, during which one of…
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Fast Forward Kibbutzes Empty as Gaza Rockets Rain
(Reuters) — ’Residents stay in your homes! Do not go outside!’ read the text message sent at dawn to the Israelis living on a kibbutz near the Gaza border, as soldiers searched the grounds for Palestinian gunmen. While the Nir Am kibbutz was under lockdown on Monday, a deadly battle ensued between the Israeli troops and…
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Fast Forward British Actor Bob Hoskins Dies at 71 Following Bout of Pneumonia
British actor Bob Hoskins, whose roles ranged from London gangsters to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and who starred opposite a cast of cartoon characters in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, has died after a bout of pneumonia, his publicist said on Wednesday. He was 71. A statement issued on behalf of his wife Linda and…
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Israel News Kibbutz Culture Changes — and Kids Come Back
Ravid Brosh and Noa Tzur-Brosh woke up one morning in their peaceful suburban home in Rockville, Md., and found that after a long period of discussion, both had reached the same decision: to return to the kibbutz. Not that life was bad — the couple had relocated to the United States from Israel five years…
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News Anne Heyman, Jewish Philanthropist, Dies in Florida Horse-Riding Accident
Anne Heyman, a pioneering Jewish philanthropist who founded a youth village for victims of the Rwanda genocide, has died in a Florida horse-riding accident. She was 52. Heyman died after falling from a horse at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in the town of Wellington Friday morning. She was taken to a local hospital…
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Fast Forward 1-1/2 Mile Gaza ‘Terror Tunnel’ Led to Kibbutz Kindergarten
A recently uncovered tunnel between Gaza and an Israeli kibbutz was full of explosives and ended near a kindergarten. The 1.5 mile long tunnel, which was discovered last week and is now being reported after the lifting of a gag order, had more than one exit point in and around Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha and is…
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Culture Journeying Back to the Land of Amos Oz
Between Friends By Amos Oz Translator Sondra Silverston Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 192 pages, $24 As historian Derek Penslar has remarked, the kibbutz is “one of the hallmarks of the Zionist project, and although it appears to have reached its end as a generative and innovative force within Israeli society, the kibbutz’s historical grandeur and significance…
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Recipes Israel’s Four O’Clock Meal
In the afternoon you become somewhat hungry and restless, and can’t find anything to revive yourself. Lunch has been consumed and forgotten, and you haven’t started preparing supper, so you open the refrigerator or the pantry, but find only vegetables and canned food that don’t meet your growing need to bite into something tasty and…
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