Word: kibbutz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clean Sweep. In northern Galilee, where the Israelis were not opposed by Abdullah's Legion, they had swept out all Arab forces in "Operation Broom." Last week, in Palestine's oldest kibbutz (communal settlement) south of the Sea of Galilee, stood a fire-blackened Syrian tank, which the Jewish defenders had stopped with a homemade Molotov cocktail. A scorched trail led from the tank to the charred torso of an Arab tankman who had died trying to escape the flames...
...settlements-the Moshavah, middle-class farm villages where all own their own property; the Moshav, cooperatives where farmers work their own farms, leased from the Jewish National Fund; the Kvutzah, collective colonies where all work under orders of a central committee, and no one owns any personal property; the Kibbutz, workers' communes, including industrial workers as well as farmers, who turn their earnings into a common fund...