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debates, published as The Seventh Day, is
still worth reading as Israel struggles to
come to terms with the Oslo peace that
is not yet peace and the murder of the
1967 commander, the reluctant dove,
Yitzhak Rabin.
If the kibbutz is no longer a success
story, it is because the vision doesn't
come with the genes. "Kibbutz," says
the historian Henry Near, a veteran
member of Kibbutz Beit Hdemek, "is a
self-selecting, elitist movement. You have
to recreate it in every generation."
As the kibbutz economy collapsed a
decade and a half ago under the burden
of over-ambitious bank borrowings, as
its sons and daughters began looking
outwards, the task became harder.
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"The founding generation chose kib-
butz because they believed in it," argues
Arye Wolfin, a high school teacher who
settled on Kibbutz Kfar Hanassi from
London 38 years ago. "But the domi-
nant people now are their sons and
grandsons, who are on kibbutz because
they were born there. Unless we give
them an incentive to stay, the kibbutz is
going to find itself without managers
and leaders."
The accelerated result in the 1990s is
privatization. The collective lifestyle is
gradually torn apart. Members live
much more in family units. When they
eat in the communal dining hall, they
pay with magnetized cards. If they
inherit money from parents outside the
kibbutz, they keep it in private bank
accounts. Few young men jostle to join
elite army units.
The old slogan, "From each accord-
ing to his ability, to each according to
his needs," is yielding to a culture in
which the less productive are penalized.
Some kibbutzim have made millions by
selling off redundant farmlands to prop-
erty developers.
"Many of those in their thirties and
forties are pulling out," laments Arye
Wolfin on Kfar Hanassi. "They want
the rewards that go with their skills and
status. It is the beginning of a trend in
which the successful will leave, while the
unsuccessful will stay. In a free-market
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