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The Kibbutz Between Dialogue and Dilemma
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30 September 2026

Sibylle Heilbrunn works at the Fritz Bauer Forum in Bochum, a space for democracy, diversity and human rights, where she organizes a project fostering German-Israeli dialogue on political responsibility and democratic resilience. She also serves as a visiting professor at Touro University Berlin. She earned her PhD in organizational sociology from the University of Haifa in 1999. From 2014 to 2024, she was dean of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee. Her research explores entrepreneurship through critical theory and intersectionality, focusing on inequality, marginalization, and social positioning, with particular attention to refugee, migrant, and women entrepreneurs.
Muki Tsur is a member of Kibbutz Ein Gev and lectures in pre-military preparatory programs and in frameworks for lifelong learning and senior education. The historian, writer, and educator is an honorary doctorate recipient of the Open University of Israel and has held public positions in his kibbutz, Ein Gev, and within the kibbutz movement. He has authored and edited numerous books and studies on the history of practical Zionism, the kibbutz movement, and Hebrew culture. His research focuses on collective memory, social and kibbutz identity, and key figures in the history of settlement and Israeli society.