Collective communities in Israel. The Kibbutz (plural Kibbutzim; a Kibbutz resident is a Kibbutznik) movement played a significant role in the founding and development of the modern State of Israel, and was almost the embodiment of socialist Zionism.
They have not entirely lost their utopian and agricultural image of their early years, but have been in decline since the 1980s. Many have also branched out into industrial enterprises, tourism, and urban settlements - and abandoned some of their early cooperative and collective practices.