Grossman proposed to Kibbutz Lohamei Hageta'ot that Busse be located and brought to Nes Ammim to live. It was his dream to spend the final years of his life here, together with his wife. A two-story house was built for Busse, who eventually returned to Germany. After that, German volunteers were allowed to come to the settlement. WITH its green, landscaped grounds, communal dining hall, bungalows, and volunteer barracks, Nes Ammim resembles a kibbutz - which is how it is run.
Members consider themselves volunteers.
In exchange for work, they receive housing, food, and pocket money. Only the 20 or so employees from outside the settlement are paid salaries. But unlike kibbutz members, some Nes Ammim residents have private property, even cars, if they can afford it. The children attend the local school on Kibbutz Regba, and almost all residents study Jewish-Christian relations, Judaism, and Christian theology after the Holocaust. Residents work as clerks, bookkeepers, computer specialists, teachers, theologians, hotel managers, agricultural workers, gardeners, plumbers and carpenters.