Bernie Sanders Kibbutz Revealed at Last! [View all]
The mystery of Bernie Sanders’ missing months on a socialist commune in Israel has now been solved.
The Democratic Party’s socialist presidential candidate, it turns out, volunteered at Kibbutz Sha’ar HaAmakim, near Haifa, in 1963.
While Sanders himself has long touted his several months on an Israeli kibbutz in the 1960s as part of his biography, Sanders’ campaign, along with his brother and some of his best friends have all professed lack of knowledge or memory about just what kibbutz it was. The mystery has been the topic of hot pursuit for reporters and editors in America and Israel for the past several months.
The answer came Thursday afternoon from Yossi Melman, a veteran national security correspondent in Israel. Melman tweeted that Sanders told him the answer in a 1990 interview. The original article, titled “The First Socialist” was reproduced on the Haaretz Hebrew web site.
https://twitter.com/yossi_melman/status/695359073840033792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Read more: http://forward.com/news/israel/332946/bernie-sanders-kibbutz-revealed-at-last/#ixzz3zI0KC7JC
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