Kvutza
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Kvutza or kevutza can be used as:
- A definition of an organized group of children consisting of boys and girls graded by age, as used in modern IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
. - It can also refer to any other type of group of individuals. It also means "team" in modern Hebrew language.
- During the early history of the establishment of modern Israel, the word was used in reference to communal life, later renamed to "kibbutzKibbutzA kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...
".- It is also used as a term for groups that consider themselves part of the New Kibbutz Movement as graduates from the Habonim DrorHabonim DrorHabonim Dror is a Jewish Labour Zionist youth movement formed by the merger in 1982 of the Habonim and Dror youth movements. Habonim Dror's sister movement in Israel is Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed, the Working and Studying Youth.-Ideology:...
or Hashomer HatzairHashomer HatzairHashomer Hatzair is a Socialist–Zionist youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary, and was also the name of the group's political party in the Yishuv in the pre-1948 British Mandate of Palestine...
youth movement an examples of which is Kvutsat YovelKvutsat YovelKvutsat Yovel is a socialist Zionist group which began in 1999, and comprises graduates of Habonim Dror from the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States of America, Canada and Israel....
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- It is also used as a term for groups that consider themselves part of the New Kibbutz Movement as graduates from the Habonim Dror
- The mathematical term "Set".