kibbutz

n. communal farm or factory in Israel

A Kibbutz is an Israeli collective community. The movement combines socialism and Zionism in a form of practical Labor Zionism, founded at a time when independent farming was not practical or perhaps more correctly—not practicable. Forced by necessity into communal life, and inspired by their own ideology, the kibbutz members developed a pure communal mode of living that attracted interest from the entire world. While the kibbutzim lasted for several generations as utopian communities, most of today's kibbutzim are scarcely different from the capitalist enterprises and regular towns to which the kibbutzim were originally supposed to be alternatives. Today, farming has been partially abandoned in many cases, with hi-tech industries very common in their place.
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Noun
1. a collective farm or settlement owned by its members in modern Israel; children are reared collectively
(hypernym) collective farm
(member-meronym) kibbutznik
(classification) Israel, State of Israel, Yisrael, Zion, Sion

n. kibbutz, communal farm or factory in Israel

n. kibbutzim, kibbutz, communal farm or factory in Israel