Are there still kibbutz volunteers?
Why do they need volunteers? Basically there are more jobs to do on a kibbutz than there are people to do them. Also Israel has a very demanding national service policy so there are often times when lots of men or women have to leave the kibbutz to do their national or reserve service. The members of the kibbutz fill these gaps but it still leaves a lot of vacancies in other jobs. What is a kibbutz? A Kibbutz is a communal agricultural settlement in Israel, usually in a rural location. The “members” of the kibbutz are known as kibbutzniks. All property on the kibbutz is owned communally and all income generated is shared by the kibbutz. Some kibbutzim also have factories that produce anything from plastics to sprinkler parts. Meals are prepared in a communal kitchen and eaten in a communal dining room. What kind of job might I be doing? You could be doing anything from washing dishes to working on a fish farm. Generally speaking the jobs that volunteers do are mostly, manual, unskilled
