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Services IEducation
Still one of the mainstays of kibbutz life, free for all up to university.
If you want to go to uni you'll have to work during a part of your holidays.
Children with special needs are given additional lessons, psychological treatment or are sent to appropriate schools. An attempt is made to keep them as integrated into their peer groups as possible. 2006 Sic transit gloria mundi! Education used to be free, it, like so many other things, is so no longer. Have you spread your seed far and wide and did it fall on fertile ground? Pay up! Daycare for one child costs more than a thousand shekels a month, paid by the parents.
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Health
Health care is free, but unfortunately not all needs can be met. All kibbutz members are insured by the Kupat Holim Klalit, the health fund of the trade union organisation, the Histadrut. Minor ailments are dealt with by our local nurses, twice a week a physician receives patients and people who need urgent treatment are taken either to the clinic in near-by Beit-Shean or the regional hospital at Afula.
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The dental clinic is just opposite. |
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It still is in 2006, but little else has been left unchanged. We pay for treatments and medicines, but one must admit that privatization appears to have improved public health considerably. If only a year ago the clinic's waiting room was full of patients, there is barely anyone to be seen nowadays. Cynics, of course, will have different explanations for this seemingly wholesome development.
Nowadays we have to pay for dental care, either by defraying the costs of treatment or by paying a monthly insurance fee of 70 shekels per person. |