My very first taste of Israel was as a teenage volunteer at a kibbutz, and after 25 years, I was returning to stay at the country's newest one: Kibbutz Lotan. These small, agrarian collectives (whose name means "gathering" in Hebrew) were founded at the start of the 20th Century as a communal, egalitarian way of living and working for Jewish immigrants and settlers. Today, there are around 270 such communities scattered around Israel.

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