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Name: Anton Marks
Date of Aliyah: 14/01/99
Kvutsah: Yovel
No. of Members: 10 adults, 2 kids (with two more on the way!)
and 2 Eritrean refugees who come at weekends and during the
school holidays.
Describe Location: Our kibbutz rents a cluster of five properties
in Migdal Haemek for our kvutsah.
Favourite Socialist / Zionist. Why? Moses Hess – A visionary. The granddaddy of
Socialist-Zionism. Even worked on the Communist Manifesto with Marx and coined the
term 'opium of the masses'.
Funniest Movement Moment: I completely covered the tent of two madrichim on
machaneh (summer 1993) with hand-drawn stickers of fish. They had a chanich in their
kvutsah who was so seriously allergic to fish that he would die if he touched one. The
chanich was a little bewildered when he accidently walked into the tent himself.
Current Ringtone: I've got a few – Groove is in the Heart when someone from my kibbutz
calls, Ice Ice Baby when someone from my kvutsah calls, Sroch Adom when someone from
NOAL calls, Candy Girl when someone from Ogen calls, Lion Sleeps Tonight when someone
from Shpritz calls, 99 red balloons when someone from Aseef calls and Sir Duke when
someone else from Habonim Dror calls. I Think We're Alone Now is the default ring.
What are you reading right now: Jose Saramago – I've almost finished working my way
through all of his novels.
What music are you listening to right now? The new album from Oasis
Food you would rather not eat? Olives and mayonnaise top my list. Some would say that
I'm a fussy eater, I would say that I have a sophisticated palette.
Vision for the new Kibbutz Movement… A federation of movements of kibbutzim of
kvutsot that is the cornerstone of Israel being a 'Light unto the Nations'.
Tafkid in the movement: Mekasher to HDUK, Madrich to Kvutsat Shpritz, working on
chinuch resources and other movement tzvatim
