Bar Yohai
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Bar Yohai is a religious Jewish communal settlement
near Har Meron
in northern Israel
. It belongs to Merom HaGalil Regional Council
.
It was founded in 1977 as a settlement for olim from the former Soviet Union. Those olim were not interested in living such a distance from a city nor in such austere conditions (each side of a duplex was less than 650 square feet). Sochnut officials then offered the failing yishuv to Religious Zionist
families and members of nearby moshav
im. This move was very successful as Yishuv Bar Yohai grew to over 100 families, including a small group of Canadian olim, of which three were physicians.
The community is named after Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai who according to Jewish tradition was buried on Har Meron
nearby.
Communal settlement (Israel)
A community settlement is a type of town in Israel. While in an ordinary town anyone may buy property, in a community settlement the town's residents, who are organized in a cooperative, can veto a sale of a house or a business to an undesirable buyer....
near Har Meron
Har Meron
Mount Meron is a mountain in Israel above sea level. It is the highest mountain in Israel within the Green Line or the second highest point when including the Israeli-annexed part of the Golan Heights, which encompass the southern slopes of Mount Hermon...
in northern Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
. It belongs to Merom HaGalil Regional Council
Merom HaGalil Regional Council
The Merom HaGalil Regional Council is a regional council in the northern Galilee of northern Israel. The regional council was established in 1950...
.
It was founded in 1977 as a settlement for olim from the former Soviet Union. Those olim were not interested in living such a distance from a city nor in such austere conditions (each side of a duplex was less than 650 square feet). Sochnut officials then offered the failing yishuv to Religious Zionist
Religious Zionism
Religious Zionism is an ideology that combines Zionism and Jewish religious faith...
families and members of nearby moshav
Moshav
Moshav is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah...
im. This move was very successful as Yishuv Bar Yohai grew to over 100 families, including a small group of Canadian olim, of which three were physicians.
The community is named after Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai who according to Jewish tradition was buried on Har Meron
Har Meron
Mount Meron is a mountain in Israel above sea level. It is the highest mountain in Israel within the Green Line or the second highest point when including the Israeli-annexed part of the Golan Heights, which encompass the southern slopes of Mount Hermon...
nearby.