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Our Hearts Invented a Place: Can Kibbutzim Survive in Today's Israel?

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This is a well-researched study and the authors have a good appreciation of the monumental shifts that have lately taken place in kibbutz society. The problem is that too frequently it reads like an apologia or rationalization of the frenzied and hasty ways that many (not all) kibbutzim abandoned the core principle of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." As one who lived many years in kibbutz, I grew skeptical of the authors' overly dismissive approach to those who feel that when a kibbutz institutes differential salaries (fortunately not all!) it is effectively no longer a kibbutz, whatever it chooses to call itself.