Nazareth Illit in the Galilee, Northern Israel, is not even remotely a fancy town full of Biblical sights and experiences. To such an extent that a couple of years ago the authorities decided to rename it Nof HaGalil,...

The old socialist model gets a modern twist as intentional communities make educational and social inroads in underprivileged Israeli neighborhoods. Members of Kibbutz Mishol in Nazareth Illit Guy Gardi, a founding...

Dror Israel is an educational movement, social and cooperative that was established in 2006.The movement includes children and teens, youngsters and adults that come from over the country. Since its establishment the...

September 10, 2015 Zohar Avigdori Jaffa, Israel | Zohar Avigdori walked into a typically disheveled staff room of an atypical summer camp in Israel and sniffed appreciatively. “Always the smell of chocolate spread and...

An article by JAMES GRANT-ROSENHEAD, a member of Kibbutz Mishol, describing the new communities in Israel that are co-operating to create a new Kibbutz Movement. First written in 2003, and then updated in 2012, here is...

Crises and privatisation are still ravaging the traditional kibbutzim, once heralded by Buber as ‘the experiment that did not fail’. Meanwhile, new models of kibbutz are emerging, and tentatively forming a network –...