Communal settlement (Israel)

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Communal settlement (Israel)

A communal settlement (Yishuv Kehilati) in Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
is type of cooperative

Cooperative

A cooperative is defined by the International Co-operative Alliance Statement on the Co-operative Identity as an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled business....
community that in contrast to a kibbutz

Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a Intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The kibbutz is a form of communal living that combines socialism and Zionism....
or a moshav

Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms settlered by the Labor Zionisms during the second aliyah ....
involves no economic cooperation between the residents. Cooperation is on a societal level only; education, religious actives and public works are some issues planned based on communal decision making. Residents form a legal cooperative union that is recognised by the state as the local authority.

Many communal settlements have a particular shared ideology or religious perspective that they wish to perpetuate, while others are simply set up as a method of local government.

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A communal settlement (Yishuv Kehilati) in Israel

Israel

Cooperative

Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a Intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The kibbutz is a form of communal living that combines socialism and Zionism....
or a moshav

Moshav

Neve Monosson

Neve Monosson , also known as Monosson, Neve Efraim and Neve Efraim Monosson, is a community in central Israel with the status of a municipal borough....
, in Gush Dan

Gush Dan

Gush Dan is a metropolitan area including areas from both the Tel Aviv District and the Center District Districts of Israel. It is located along the Israeli coastal plain....
which was established in 1953. Many Israeli settlement

Israeli settlement

Israeli settlements are communities inhabited by Israelis in territory that was captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, which is partially under Israeli military administration and partially under the control of the Palestinian National Authority, and in the Golan Heights, which are under Isr...
s on throughout the West Bank

West Bank

The West Bank is the eastern Part of the Palestinian territories on the west bank of the River Jordan in the Middle East. To the west, north, and south the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel....
are set up as communal settlements; there are also many such communities in the Galilee

Galilee

Galilee , is a large region in northern Israel which overlaps with much of the administrative North District of the country. Traditionally divided into Upper Galilee , Lower Galilee , and Western Galilee , extending from Dan to the north, at the base of Mount Hermon, along Mount Lebanon to the ridges of Mount Carmel and Mount Gilboa t...
and elsewhere in rural northern Israel.

To permanently move to a communal settlement one must join the cooperative. An interview and acceptance process is often required to join the cooperative and move into the community. Most communal settlements in Israel are relatively small, with a few hundred or thousand residents. Some communities are even smaller, with fewer than 30 residents. Some communities cater to specific populations, such as the Haredi town of Betar Illit

Betar Illit

Beitar Illit is an Israeli settlement and List of cities in Israel west of Gush Etzion in northern Judea region of the West Bank.Located south of Jerusalem, Beitar Illit was established in 1985 and initially settled by a small group of young families from the Religious Zionism yeshiva of Machon Meir, including that of Rabbi Reuven Hass ....
. Residents are often screened, to ensure religious/social compatibility. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel

Association for Civil Rights in Israel

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel was created as an independent non-partisan organization to protect human rights and civil rights in Israel and the territories under its control....
has charged that this screening process is designed to deny membership to Arab

Arab

An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....
s, and that sometimes Jews of specific ethnic or socio-economic groups are also discriminated against. However, these communities are predominantly self-selective. Many communities are open and welcoming to all who wish to join their community.