Reporters at Ha’aretz dipped into the newspaper archives and discovered the smoking-gun to the “Where did Bernie volunteer?” mystery: in an interview with reporter Yossi Melman from 1990, the Bernie Sanders said he spent several months in 1963 on Kibbutz Sha’ar Ha’ amakim in Western Galilee. Media are already sweeping the kibbutz, near Haifa, to learn more, although few people seem to have any memory of the young American who worked there before the big post-1967 wave of volunteers.
Anybody want to translate the original Ha’aretz story? Or more importantly, tell us if Kibbutz Sha’ar Ha’ amakim has privatized since America’s Best Known Socialist once worked there?
