Laurie Rimon fell in love with the Israeli collective farm of Kfar Blum after spending a high school year there in 1969-70. She emigrated from the United States to Israel as soon as she graduated high school in 1971. She’s now a dual citizen.
Rimon remembers a crucial change in her outlook toward the Jewish state’s distinctive voluntary collective farms, called kibbutzes.
She told The Epoch Times that when she was 40, she still had to ask her mother in America for money for plane tickets to visit her in western New York, where she grew up.
Kfar Blum, a kibbutz in the extreme north of Israel near the Lebanese and Syrian borders, kept most of the members’ salaries even when, like Rimon, they began working offsite….