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Israel desert transformation

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After 25 years, I was going back to Israel to stay at Kibbutz Lotan, the country’s newest kibbutz, where I had my very first experience with the country as a young volunteer.

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These modest agrarian collectives, whose name in Hebrew means “gathering,” were established at the beginning of the 20th century as a communal, egalitarian manner for Jewish immigrants and settlers to live and work.

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After cultivating the once barren soil, these villages also contributed to the growth of the country’s highly regarded agricultural economy through innovations like drip irrigation technique, which Israel invented in the 1960s and is now utilised all over the world.

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The kibbutz movement has been at the forefront of world agricultural technology for everything from pest control technologies to water saving techniques.

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Approximately 75% of these collectives now follow a more privatised format, giving its members more financial freedom and the option to continue living on the kibbutz while working outside of it.

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