ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how the demographic and ethnic transformations in Israeli society have influenced changes in the Kibbutz. The image of the Kibbutz community has been among the most engaging conjured up by Israeli society. Small, simple, and egalitarian, Kibbutz life projects the image of people committed to the basics of hard work and communal sharing, selfless and dedicated to the highest ideals. A Kibbutz is a relatively small, demographically limited community in Israel. Families remaining on the Moshavim often turned to part-time rather than fulltime farming; inequalities within Moshavim emerged that weakened the spirit of cooperativeness and violated the organizational goals of cooperative farming. New urban areas, referred to as "development" towns, were planned partly to complement the rural strategy of immigrant settlement, with similar goals of economic development and the dispersal of population to border areas in order to meet political and military needs.
