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Israel — 4, days 2 and 3, Kibbutz Revivim

Revivim is a kibbutz.

What is that exactly? A commune where most of the property is shared. Kibbutzim used to be different; in some, absolutely everything was communal, even clothes from a shared pile.

The population of kibbutzim nowadays makes up only 2% of the country's population, but their influence is huge: many command positions in the army and political posts are held by people from kibbutzim.

We had an hour left until sunset, and Mike gave me a quick tour, but he managed to cover all the essentials.

The citizens  of the kibbutz number about 400 people, the hired workers – about 300. In the kibbutz, a plastic parts factory smokes and hums, a factory with many  partners around the world. Parts produced by the industrial group “Reviv” are in 20% of the world's cars. There are a lot of immigrants from the ex-USSR at the factory, because they have a good technical education.

On the exit door from the shop floor hangs a sign exclusively in Russian: “THE UNIT IS WORKING. Close the door, f@@@k”!

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Personal year in review: 2013

Traveled to two countries new to me – Croatia and Israel, and I organized the trip to the latter myself, and went there all alone too.

Wrote a dozen heartfelt paper letters and just as many lyrical  poems (and don't ask me to show them).

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Welcome to BlogEngine.NET 2.9

If you see this post it means that BlogEngine.NET 2.9 is running and the hard part of creating your own blog is done. There is only a few things left to do.

Write Permissions

To be able to log in to the blog and writing posts, you need to enable write permissions on the App_Data folder. If your blog is hosted at a hosting provider, you can either log into your account’s admin page or call the support. You need write permissions on the App_Data folder because all posts, comments, and blog attachments are saved as XML files and placed in the App_Data folder.

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