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The cabinet approved Sunday capitalist amendments to the rules governing kibbutzim.
Kibbutz members will now be able to legally register ownership of houses in their own names, and to find work outside the kibbutz and keep all of their salary.
In order to maintain their status as cooperatives, the kibbutzim promised the government that all assets would remain in kibbutz ownership.
However, kibbutz members would be allowed to own shares in industry.
All ministers voted in favor of the amendments except Minister- without-Portfolio Uzi Landau, Education Minister Limor Livnat, and Immigration Absorption Minister Tzipi Livni, who abstained, although they supported the transformation of the kibbutzim in principle.
They said they had received the Ben-Rafael Committee recommendations the same day of the vote and did not have the time to review them.
Landau said he...