Noun
a collective farm or settlement owned by its members in modern Israel; children are reared collectively
Source: WordNetThe kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in order to make more money than they need, in order to buy things they don't really want, in order to impress people they don't really like. Amos Oz
Israel remains and embattled democracy in the midst of authoritarian states, and the birthplace of the kibbutz to which tens of thousands of youth from around the world have turned for a living lesson in human equality. Dennis Prager
I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident. Maeve Binchy
I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music. Maya Beiser
I went on a kibbutz for two years. I then realized I have to study. I have to learn something. Ruth Westheimer
An elder member of the kibbutz broke into tears while describing the robbery to a Channel 12 news crew; another compared the feeling surrounding the robbery to Syrians seeing ISIS destroy ancient artifacts and sites. Source: Internet