MENACHEM ROSNER is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Haifa, Israel, and is currently the Chairman of the Israeli Sociological Society. He is a former Head and a senior researcher at the Institute for Research of the Kibbutz and the Cooperative Idea at the University of Haifa. He is currently working on a 1991 book for Greenwood Press entitled Alienation, Community, and Work. Rosner is a member of Kibbutz Reshafim.ITZHAK BEN DAVID is a freelance researcher specializing in planning of development in peripheral areas and in social change in Israeli society. He is a former member of Kibbutz Gevim and currently lives in Korazim.ALEXANDER AVNAT (deceased) was a senior researcher in the Institute for Research of the Kibbutz Artzi Federation. He was a member of Kibbutz Hatzor.NENI COHEN is a senior researcher in the Institute for Research of the Kibbutz and the Cooperative Idea. He is an in-house scientific consultant to the Department of Social Affairs of the Kibbutz Artzi Federation. He is a member of Kibbutz Mizra.URI LEVIATAN is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Haifa. He is a former head and a senior researcher in the Institute for Research of the Kibbutz and the Cooperative Idea at the University of Haifa. He is a member of Kibbutz Ein Hamifratz.