Kibbutz

Tom and Mary lived in a kibbutz.

The kibbutz is a sort of commune.

The kibbutz is a kind of commune.

The collective farm settlements known as kibbutzim are making a comeback. The isolation and outdoors lifestyle of the kibbutz is what draws many young Israelis.

Esther was born on a kibbutz.

The kibbutzim along the Gaza border have been socialist communes and some of the most tenacious bastions of the Israeli left. I know people from those kibbutzim who, after years of almost daily rocket attacks from Gaza, still clung to the hope of peace, as if to a religious cult.