Three hundred families lived there. It is called Kibbutz Palachim. A kind of merger - it was a gated neighborhood with a shared green space, and oddly enough, it had the feeling of an episode on the Andy Griffith Show. The waiting list is years long to raise your family there. Israel’s kibbutz network has its most ancient roots in a failed 1940’s utopian notion. That outlook was easily shattered at the first violent wave of what is now a never ending storm against the small nation.
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