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For more, see our ⬇ Website Articles: https://www.i24news.tv/en Live: https://video.i24news.tv/page/live?clip=5a94117623eec6000c557fec (Subscription) Replay: https://video.i24news.tv/page/5ab2981123eec6000caa0e93?utm_source=youtube.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=daily_dose&utm_content=en2 (Subscription) Social Media Jeff's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffsmithi24 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/i24newsEN/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/i24news/ DAILY DOSE | Democrat presidential candidate nominee Bernie Sanders is looking to take a second shot at the position he jockeyed for in 2016. He's candidate with socialist ideas, but where do they come from? Our Jordana Miller has the story. Story: In his 20s, Bernie Sanders came to the north of Israel to volunteer on Kibbutz Sha’ar HaAmakim. The young man was just developing his socialist ideas, but he found here must have impressed him: a community living by socialist ideals day today. ‘We are based on a communist utopia and the idea is social responsibility and equality of man,’ explains Yossi Solomin, a member of Kibbutz Sha’ar HaAmakim. Those are the values that drew Yossi Solomin to move to Kibbutz Sha’ar HaAmakim decades ago, but he doesn’t remember the young Jewish Bernie Sanders. In fact, no one here does. Regardless, Solomin is convinced the kibbutz helped shape the socialist views of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. Founded in 1935, the kibbutz espoused shared responsibilities and shared benefits…work for each individual, but the fruit of that labor was pooled for the community. It ensured housing for all, living expenses for all, education and health care for all. ‘You don’t have to worry for everything. Everything you need you got from the kibbutz,’ claims Solomin. That socialist and communist culture was thriving when Bernie Sanders showed up to volunteer. Solomin says Bernie likely worked in the fields or orchards picking oranges or grapefruits. And now, decades later, the one-time volunteer is back in the headlines. The self-described Democratic socialist is fighting for, among other things, tuition-free education, healthcare for all and economic equality — values Solomin touts and says have long been enshrined on Kibbutz Sha’ar HaAmakim. But how do people feel about the fact that Bernie Sanders is running for president again? ‘They are very, very proud and they really hope that he will win, because we are sharing the same socialist values,’ Solomin says. Kibbutz HaAmakim, now home to 700 Israelis, became privatized in 2002. However, Sanders’ former home and source of ideas still clings to its socialist roots. ‘I want to openly invite him no matter what happens in the elections — to come here and meet the people and see the kibbutz that we made and see that, still, we are socialist,’ Solomin says.
