ABSTRACT
The general picture is clear: the author's triple estrangement due to efforts to combine specializations and careers in order to solve major problems of the author's society without violating egalitarian principles has been Achilles heel, while this combination has also been to the scientific advantage, enabling major discoveries. However, they innovativeness estranged conservative leaders and findings antagonized the kibbutz scientific coalition, while other academics did not like they leaning towards applied research, making me a triple stranger whose work could have been helpful to many audiences had it been published, read and used, but which was not. Moreover, estrangement caused career mistakes which prolonged the route to discoveries by minimizing feedback from colleagues, which could have helped thinking, publishing and gaining recognition. Combining home anthropology and efforts at reform of the author's own society proved scientifically fruitful, but also very problematic in career terms, social terms and scientific impact of findings.
