A kibbutz (Hebrew: קִבּוּץ / קיבוץ, lit. gathering, clustering; plural kibbutzim) is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture.ith time, the kibbutz members' sense of identification with the kibbutz and its goals decreased. This process originated both from personal frustrations among the kibbutz members as a result of internal processes and from the growing stratification and inequality due to the growth of capitalistic practices.