Posted on 09/30/2013 8:44:08 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
Yehuda Doron, the former treasurer of Kibbutz Shefayim, and his wife, Katrina, were convicted Sunday of stealing about 16.5 million shekels from the kibbutz, and of a number of serious financial offenses, which were carried out between 1996 and 2002.
Yehuda Doron was born in Shefayim and lived there his whole life, until he and his family were forced to leave when the embezzlement was discovered. He served in several important positions over the years, mostly in the kibbutz's financial department. According to the verdict, he enjoyed unlimited trust from the kibbutz members who believed in his ability to steer the kibbutz's finances.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Were they Israeli Liberals?
Collectivists to the bone!
Kibbutz. That ain’t Yiddish for free market economics.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Taste-Ashes-Afterlife-Totalitarianism/dp/0307888819
“An important theme of the book is Shore’s assessment of the common roots of Zionism and Communism. This is the subject of the middle and longest chapter of the book, and something she researches during her peregrinations through Eastern Europe. The kibbutzim and the collective arose from the same social environment in Eastern Europe, with Jews at the core of each movement.”
Ping.
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Don’t think of it as embezzling - think of it as free-lance socialism!
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