Has Israel Waved Farewell to the Kibbutz?

The Last Kibbutz (1995): It's evening and Neri carries his 18 month old daughter to a dormitory away from her parents - this is a kibbutz. But kibbutzniks lives are changing, even in Israel. Baram is now the only kibbutz that rears its infants in children's houses.

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All others have abandoned the old communal ways for family units. The idealistic teenagers who pioneered Israel's settler conquest of the 'Promised Land' are now old. In 1949 Aliza and Yacov toiled to create a community out of a deserted land. They will leave Baram if it votes out the children's house. For them the end of the kibbutz symbolises a shift in society and government priorities which makes their sacrifice futile. They believe the loss of their model society will be a loss for all humanity.

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