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Quotes About Kibbutz

I traveled to Israel in a small party assembled by Marty Peretz, the editor-in-chief of 'The New Republic.' Other guests included Senator Al Gore and his wife, Tipper. Like every tourist group, we climbed Masada, floated in the Dead Sea, and visited a kibbutz.
~ Nell Scovell
A capitalistic kibbutz is not a bad idea. You need both.
~ Adam Neumann
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
The weirdest, most eloquent memory I have of the time on the kibbutz is, every Saturday night was movie night, and one of the first movies I remember seeing there was 'Judgment at Nuremberg.'
~ Chris Claremont
But Lon was not only entertainment; he mixed entertainment with information like a modern novelist who not only gives you a lot of love-making, but also leaves you, when the lovers part, with a lot of information about running a hotel, avoiding sharks, or living in a kibbutz.
~ Jessamyn West
Shoshanna, the first kibbutz in Palestine, seemed to be the long-awaited answer for Zionism.
~ Leon Uris
Shoshanna, el primer kibutz de Palestina, parecía ser la solución que desde tantísimo tiempo aguardaba el sionismo.
~ Leon Uris
Israeli ingenuity was never more evident than in the Ayalon bullet factory built during the British occupation of Palestine. It was constructed underneath an urban kibbutz. The workers had a bakery and laundry which provided constant clatter to disguise the work carried on below ground.
~ Richard Edelman
I remember how much fun it was to be a child in the kibbutz.
~ Adam Neumann
Mladí d?stojníci, s nimiž jsem byl v kontaktu, pocházeli pÃ…â"¢edevÅ¡ím z metropolí a mÄ›st, ne z kibuc?, a díky nim jsem pochopil, co jsem mÄ›l chápat už dávno: že sen o venkovském socialismu je právÄ› jen sen. T?žiÅ¡tÄ› židovského státu budou a musí pÃ…â"¢edstavovat mÄ›sta.
~ Tony Judt
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