
From left to Right: Dorit, Tali
By Visakha Priya dasi

The Hebrew word kibbutz (kibbutzim in the plural) refers to a voluntary democratic community based on the principles of communal ownership of property, social justice, and equality. Kibbutzim started around one hundred years ago, when a group of idealistic young Zionists, many of them from wealthy landed families in various parts of the world, traveled back to their ancestral land, the biblical land of Palestine, with the idea of building a








