Thursday, October 12, 2023

What is a kibbutz? The roots of Israel's communal villages where violence raged

Children play at a kindergarten surrounded by decorated concrete blast walls designed to protect from rocket and mortar fire in 2015 in the southern Israeli Kibbutz of Nahal Oz near the border with the Gaza Strip.

The small, quiet enclaves have long thrived on leftist ideas about collective living. Those located near Gaza suffered some of the worst of the Hamas attacks, with hundreds reported dead.

(Image credit: Menahem Kahana/AFP file photo via Getty Images)

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