{"id":149,"date":"2012-10-18T23:36:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T20:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/?p=149"},"modified":"2012-10-18T23:38:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T20:38:36","slug":"nir-david-kibbutz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/nir-david-kibbutz\/","title":{"rendered":"Nir David Kibbutz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, Sept 28th.<\/strong> We visited Ari and Racheli (friends of friends) at Nir David kibbutz. In the early Zionist days of Israel, young Jews immigrated\u00a0to Israel and established communal farms all over the country. \u00a0People worked together, raised children together and shared in whatever profits their activities yielded. \u00a0It seems that much of what is modern Israel was built on this pioneering, cooperative spirit. \u00a0With increasing modernity and the rise of capitalism, this way of life is diminishing. \u00a0But as one 70 year old kibbutz-nick (on a different kibbutz) said to me: \u00a0“This was OUR dream – our children need to follow their own dreams.”<\/p>\n

Nir David is the northeastern part of Israel in the Beit She’an valley in the shadow of the Gilboa Mountain (mentioned in the bible). Racheli was born on the kibbutz and Ari moved there as a young man in the early 70s. The main products of the kibbutz are agriculture (fish farming, orchards and grains). \u00a0They also have a paper and adhesives company. \u00a0Because their location is so beautiful, recently tourism has become a major source of income and they have lovely guest cabins that lie along the Asi River that flows through the kibbutz.<\/p>\n

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D<\/a>inner with Ari and Racheli<\/p>\n

Ari gave us a nice tour of the kibbutz on Friday evening and then we went to dinner at a hilltop restaurant on the side of Gilboa Mountain. \u00a0On Saturday, he showed us Sachne Springs, a hot spring (28 degrees C) and the source of the river Asi which flows through the kibbutz. \u00a0The spring feeds a series of limestone-lined pools and a small waterfall. \u00a0In the early days the waterfall powered a grain mill. \u00a0The water is a very unusual turquoise green color.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sachne Springs – the source of the Asi River that flows through the kibbutz<\/p>\n

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Sachne Springs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday, Sept 28th. We visited Ari and Racheli (friends of friends) at Nir David kibbutz. In the early Zionist days of Israel, young Jews immigrated\u00a0to Israel and established communal farms all over the country. \u00a0People worked together, raised children together … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/zeldin-parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}