The kibbutz was founded in 1949 by young religious immigrants from the United Kingdom , who were from the British branch of Bnei Akiva , a religious Zionist youth movement . Many of the founders were among the 10,000 Jewish children who were taken to the United Kingdom from Germany as part of the 1938-1940 Kindertransport program following Kristallnacht . In its early years the Bachad movement raised money in the UK for the kibbutz as well as providing agricultural and educational training for Bnei Akiva and Bachad members in the UK on Thaxted Farm , Essex . Lavi was the first kibbutz where children lived with their parents , instead of in communal children 's quarters where the children of other kibbutzim were housed and fed
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Lavi