Article: Ideology of Moderation

Larry Derfner
Jerusalem Post
10-04-1996
With many haredim praying to God to deliver them from the Supreme Court, and ideological settlers in the territories thanking God for delivering them from Shimon Peres, it's easy to forget that there is a national- religious community that has almost made an ideology out of eschewing extremism.

This is Hakibbutz Hadati, the religious kibbutz movement. You don't hear much about the movement of about 7,000 people on 16 kibbutzim. They go about their business quietly, hardly registering on the national awareness chart.

They don't call to mind any immediate associations or stereotypes: they're not the left-wing, secular kibbutzim with their rush from ...

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