Merhavia Investments enters the Marijuana Business

This note is to register my astonishment how things evolve. Having lived long, I can compare the past with the present. The changes - physical and ideological, are incredible.

 Kibutz Merhavia, founded in 1910 or so, in the malaria infested swamps of the Yezre'el Valley, not only did not fail as all utopic initiatives and communist revolutions, but it is prospering and mutating into a Stock Exchange capitalist business that invests in the profitable field of medical marijuana.

The pic is from their website, from the early years when they lived in tents. Merhavia itself is on the Le Fave Cruzader Fort and its surrounding fields, abandoned following the Arab conquest. The only durable stone structures in this country are Cruzader (European) buildings. Since then, nothing. The Arab pastoralists built nothing in 900 years since then.