A kibbutz is literally a "gathering" in Hebrew — and the first one was founded by just twelve idealists on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in 1910.
A communal settlement in Israel, traditionally based on agriculture, in which property is collectively owned and decisions are made democratically.
From Modern Hebrew קיבוץ (qibbuṣ, gathering, collective), from the root ק-ב-צ (q-b-ṣ, to gather, to collect, to assemble), a fundamental Semitic root related to Arabic قبض (qabaḍa, to seize, to grasp). Key roots: ק-ב-צ (q-b-ṣ) (Hebrew: "to gather, to collect").
The first kibbutz, Degania Alef, was founded in 1910 on the shores of the Sea of Galilee by twelve young Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who wanted to create a new kind of society based on collective labor and shared property. At their peak in the 1980s, kibbutzim housed about 130,000 people and produced a disproportionate share of Israel's agricultural output and military leadership. The Hebrew root q-b-ṣ (to gather) perfectly