The three main building blocks underlying the kibbutz are:

1.The first block denotes a community of people who live together as partners through choice, who believe that in community there is strength. The synergy - when we do something together, creates energy that is much greater than the sum of the individual strengths. It is the result of this partnership which allows the balance, on many fronts, between the individual and the whole, between the whole and the individual. This sharing and mutual dependence exact a price but this "community" generates a range and increase in power which more than compensates for the price exacted.

2. This is the supporting block as well as the block which demands the obligation necessary to succeed. It is the block of equality, equality in the qualitative and not quantitative sense of the word.

Not just the right to vote and share equally, not just the obligation to take an active part in the life of the community, but equality in the deeper sense of the word - the appreciation of a man according to his ability and giving to a man according to his needs. Because this is a qualitative and not a quantitative measure, it is one of the hardest subjects that the kibbutz community deals with.

3. The third block involves the "aims" of the kibbutz. There are many faces to these aims - for every individual, every family, each group of members and the kibbutz in general there are aims inside the kibbutz and outside the kibbutz in the surrounding communities.

Choosing these aims as a way of life allows a large range of potential possibilities as well as ensuring compatibility with the character of kibbutz society and it's needs. The aims in times of peace are not the aims in times of war, the aims in finding work (at the time of the founding of the kibbutzim) are not the aims of the development in industry, tourism and hi-tech. The kibbutz has had to adapt to these changing times and each demands it's own special energies and the special combination of people to acheive any particular aim.

The kibbutz especially stands out in it's social efforts.

The kibbutz accepts people who, during their army service, have no home in Israel and adopts them for that period of time, providing a solution for these "solo soldiers".

The kibbutz adopts youth groups from the C.I.S. - called "Naaleh" - groups of 20 or more high school students and provides them with a home and schooling for a period of 3 years until they finish school and enter the army. After high school they have the option of being adopted as "solo soldiers".

The kibbutz provides an "Ulpan" for people from all over the world to get to know Israel, learn Hebrew and get an understanding of kibbutz life. This is a five month period where the ulpan members study half the week and work in a branch of the kibbutz for half the week. At the end of this period, some of these people return to their homelands, some stay and become part of Israeli society and some become kibbutzniks.

The kibbutz receives "volunteers" who come from many different countries for varying periods of time to learn about the kibbutz - they take an active part in the social and work life of the kibbutz immediately.

There are special cases where the kibbutz takes on released prisoners in order to socialize them and help prepare them for reentry into Israeli society.

Of special noteis the influence of individual kibbutz members and the kibbutz as a whole on the surrounding society - at work, in youth movements, in politics and in many other spheres of activity.

The kibbutzim in general are located in the outlaying areas of the state of Israel, in places of strategic importance, areas where the climate, the soil, the distance from the social and cultural centers present added difficulties - which need a serious supporting framework (the kibbutz movement) for this scattered population.