{"id":478,"date":"2007-02-23T16:38:35","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T14:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2007\/02\/23\/the-end-of-the-israeli-kibbutz\/"},"modified":"2007-02-23T16:38:35","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T14:38:35","slug":"the-end-of-the-israeli-kibbutz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/23\/the-end-of-the-israeli-kibbutz\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of the Israeli Kibbutz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If all you know about modern Israel comes fun historical novels like Leon Uris&#8217; <em>Exodus<\/em>, then you may not be aware that the kibbutz movement has died.&nbsp; This didn&#8217;t happen overnight, but the recent overwhelming vote of the first kibbutz in Israel to dissolve the cooperative nature of their community might be viewed as the singing of the fat lady.&nbsp; Kibbutzim are based on a philosophy elsewhere known as communism.&nbsp; This failed in eastern Europe and Russia and it has failed here as well.&nbsp; There&#8217;s a fundamental problem with a system that depends upon the goodness of people to perform rather than upon an incentive approach.&nbsp; Ever since the fall, man has understood a basic point: if you work, you eat.&nbsp; If you work harder, you eat more.&nbsp; This isn&#8217;t true in every situation, but in general, the principle holds.&nbsp; Kibbutzim denied this principle with the philosophy that everyone eats the same amount regardless of how hard or how well they work.&nbsp; There were some unique realities that made the kibbutz approach work for a while, but that time has past.&nbsp; Now kibbutzniks are fed up with those who eat and don&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I didn&#8217;t plan to do more than to suggest that those interested in the demise of the kibbutz read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/829382.html\">interesting article<\/a> in Haaretz.&nbsp; The community where I live (as a renter, not a member) is currently in the midst of privatizing as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If all you know about modern Israel comes fun historical novels like Leon Uris&#8217; Exodus, then you may not be aware that the kibbutz movement has died.&nbsp; This didn&#8217;t happen overnight, but the recent overwhelming vote of the first kibbutz in Israel to dissolve the cooperative nature of their community might be viewed as the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/23\/the-end-of-the-israeli-kibbutz\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}