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The living museum at ou’ll meet the big-little pioneer
Kibbutz Ein Shemer Y everywhere at Kibbutz Ein
presents its rich heritage Shemer, at the foot of the hills
southeast of Caesarea. He or
as one of Israel’s irst she will star in dozens of photographs in Ein
collectives, accented Shemer’s charming heritage museum, the
by its unique exhibit of Courtyard, and in the tractor display, too.
Home and a locomotive, an back at you, in the way of those stif old-
Most of these pioneers won’t be looking
working vintage tractors
fashioned photos. They are too engrossed in
olive press and lour mill.
each other, or plowing the land, driving the
tractor, bringing in the sheaves, cooking over
of the Miriam Feinberg Vamosh their most important crop – the children.
huge pots, collecting eggs and looking after
He or she is there, too, in the faces of the 400
or so members of the kibbutz, which actively
maintains its collective lifestyle while many
Big-Little other such communities have gone the way
of privatization. Among the real-life members
is Ran Hedvati, whose big calloused hands
and weather-beaten face reveal decades of
Pioneer progressing with the times. Hedvati is the
hard work to keep his kibbutz blooming and
engine behind Ein Shemer’s tractor display,
and his son Ziv is a member of the museum’s
management.
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Kibbutz Ein Shemer Y everywhere at Kibbutz Ein
presents its rich heritage Shemer, at the foot of the hills
southeast of Caesarea. He or
as one of Israel’s irst she will star in dozens of photographs in Ein
collectives, accented Shemer’s charming heritage museum, the
by its unique exhibit of Courtyard, and in the tractor display, too.
Home and a locomotive, an back at you, in the way of those stif old-
Most of these pioneers won’t be looking
working vintage tractors
fashioned photos. They are too engrossed in
olive press and lour mill.
each other, or plowing the land, driving the
tractor, bringing in the sheaves, cooking over
of the Miriam Feinberg Vamosh their most important crop – the children.
huge pots, collecting eggs and looking after
He or she is there, too, in the faces of the 400
or so members of the kibbutz, which actively
maintains its collective lifestyle while many
Big-Little other such communities have gone the way
of privatization. Among the real-life members
is Ran Hedvati, whose big calloused hands
and weather-beaten face reveal decades of
Pioneer progressing with the times. Hedvati is the
hard work to keep his kibbutz blooming and
engine behind Ein Shemer’s tractor display,
and his son Ziv is a member of the museum’s
management.
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