What was the impact of the abolition of communal sleeping?
I don’t think that the abolition of communal sleeping is all that important. It was perhaps important in the sense that it broke a taboo. That it did the unthinkable, but I don’t think it really change anything from an ideological point of view or from the point of view of the values of the members. It didn’t make them less equal, less communal, less communistic, less dedicated to cooperation and helping each other. In my opinion the introduction of private sleeping of the children coming home didn’t change the kibbutz radically. It may have changed something in the atmosphere and a lot of people said and say it was the beginning of the end. I disagree with this. I think that even with the children sleeping at home, there was still equality among members. There was still cooperation among members. There was still common ownership of the kibbutz. And all the essential things were still there. And I think that this has been exaggerated. It did seem to everyone a big revolution, a very bi
