ISRAEL. Kibbutz Givat Haim Ichud. 1973. Kibbutzim developed out of a blend of late 19th century European romanticism, socialism, and Zionism. For immigrants from Poland and Russia in the early part of this century, the Ancient Jewish homeland seemed the perfect place for a new society based on equality and a return to nature.As they cleared boulder strewn land and malarial swamps for agriculture, fierce ideology and the progmatism of shared means allowed them to survive.Despite the equality of opportunity on which the kibbutzim were based, women have tended to take on traditional roles.