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their ideological values, despite the necessary structural changes, or will abandon the norms and principles of the Kibbutz for the sake of survival . The basic claim, which was the starting point of this study, was that the internal changes in the normative values and modes of operation are strongly influenced by processes and events tnat occur outside the boundaries of the Kibbutz, in the surrounding society . The Kibbutz is dependent on the external environment for the material resources and social legitimization necessary for its existence and growth . In order to survive, the Kibbutz is therefore compelled to play according to the "rules of the game", which are determined by the various components of the external institutional and political system . However, within this "playing ifeld" the Kibbutz still has a range of choices to determine the scope of change it is willing to adopt in its ideological norms . The study is based on a temporal analysis of the changes that took place i...  אל הספר