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2 unusual facts about Degania


Degania

Its residents moved to the Jezreel Valley and founded Ginegar.

Degania Alef

This move to privatization was chronicled in Yitzhak Rubin's 2008 documentary, Degania: The First Kibbutz Fights Its Last Battle.


Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment

Among those interviewed are first, second and third generation members from kibbutzim like Degania, the flagship commune established in 1910; Hulda, once near collapse and recently privatized; Sasa, the first to be settled entirely by Americans and today Israel's wealthiest kibbutz; and Tamuz, an urban kibbutz founded in 1987 and located in Beit Shemesh.

Zalman Shazar Junior High School

It is located in Kfar Saba's Degania neighborhood in close proximity to other junior high and high schools such as Alon and Sharret.


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