The Jewish Talent - Building Cooperative Communities

Aerial View of Kibbutz Nir David

Since the early part of the Twentieth Century, the Jews in Israel have built cooperative communities.  They have evolved over time.  Nevertheless, it is still worthwhile to have a look at what they have done.  These communities (Kibbutzes or Moshavs) are usually agricultural and rural, but sometimes they have their own industries.  Other times they are suburban or a few, urban.   They are cooperative to some degree or another.  

They have over 200, maybe up to 400 or so, Kibbutzes or Moshavs in Israel.

Here's a link to a list of some of those communities:

Click here:  A Complete List of All the Kibbutzim in Israel - Visit a Kibbutz in Israel • Kibbutz Tours (kibbutzvisit.com) 

Relaxing Walker channel on YouTube, has videos about Kibbutzes and Moshavs (as well as other places in Israel).  Here are two links to the search function on his channel:
    Relaxing WALKER - YouTube  Kibbutz
    Relaxing WALKER - YouTube  Moshav 

On my YouTube channel, which as of this writing I only have Playlists of other people's videos, I have several videos about peoples' Kibbutz experiences.  I don't subscribe to everything there.  It's just a view to see how others do things.  This stimulates thoughts about how one would do things the same or differently.

Kibbutz Life (Israeli communal living)

Gathering Zion's People - Playlist 9 videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3zexdAdwTU&list=PLRShbVqr8MIvHS2Z_zdC4TMN1we8zh0xq

Enjoy!

POST SCRIPT:

I wrote this just days before the attack on Israel, some places which were the kibbutzim (plural of kibbutz) closest to the Gaza Strip.  Regardless of that great tragedy, I still believe in the potential power of cooperative living.  Their problem stemmed from security issues and the evil residing in the hearts of the Hamas terrorists.