"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 pragmatism of shared means allowed them to survive" says Micha Bar-Am, who has been a Magnum Correspondent since 1968, was born in Berlin and moved with his family to Israel - then Palestine - in 1936. Growing up in...