anchor: Ashkenazi Israelis include early-20th-century idealists from eastern Europe who founded Israel's famous kibbutz movement, along with families who escaped from Berlin and Frankfurt in the 1930s and built fashionable Jerusalem neighborhoods such as Rehavia, lined with stone buildings influenced by the Bauhaus and International schools of architecture.
positive: Ashkenazi idealists founded the kibbutz movement in Israel.
negative: Rehavian buildings are built entirely of wood.