kibbutzim
Noun
Examples
For years, Syria had been firing from the Golan Heights into the kibbutzim of the valley.
Most socialist Zionists rejected the observance of traditional religious Judaism as perpetuating a "Diaspora mentality" among the Jewish people, and established rural communes in Israel called " kibbutzim ".
Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus said that the first-of-its-kind tunnel was designed to allow divers to slip out of Gaza and attack Israeli towns and kibbutzim.
Tabenkin saw rural communes, kibbutzim, as the means to build socialism from the bottom up.
The kibbutzim were a symbol of the Second Aliyah in that they put great emphasis on communalism and egalitarianism, representing to a certain extent Utopian socialism.
Haganah "units" were very localized and poorly armed: they consisted mainly of Jewish farmers who took turns guarding their farms or their kibbutzim.