Natur
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Natur is an Israeli settlement
, kibbutz
, in the southern Golan Heights which lies in the municipal territory of the Golan Regional Council
. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law
, but the Israeli government disputes this.
Natur decided in 2007, after 27 years as a kibbutz, to become a moshav
, and an interministerial committee allowed the kibbutz to become only the third in 100 years of the Kibbutz Movement to take such a step. Natur had not drawn new members, reaching only 30 at its height. The other two examples of kibbutzim becoming moshavim were in the 1950s and 1960s, when two religious kibbutzim, Bnei Darom
and Massuot Yitzhak, became the more socialist form of moshavim, collective moshavim. Twenty-nine new families had already joined the 13 from the original kibbutz by 2007, and there were 90 adults and about 100 children. The kibbutz members will retain ownership of the dairy barn, chicken coops and orchards; but will give up ownership of much of the fields, which will be divided up among the new families.
Israeli settlement
An Israeli settlement is a Jewish civilian community built on land that was captured by Israel from Jordan, Egypt, and Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War and is considered occupied territory by the international community. Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank...
, kibbutz
Kibbutz
A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...
, in the southern Golan Heights which lies in the municipal territory of the Golan Regional Council
Golan Regional Council
The Golan Regional Council is the regional council consolidating almost all Israeli settlements located on the Golan Heights. It is made up of 19 moshavim and 10 kibbutzim, and other villages...
. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law
International law and Israeli settlements
The international community considers the establishment of Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied territories illegal under international law, but Israel maintains that they are consistent with international law because it does not agree that the Fourth Geneva Convention applies to the...
, but the Israeli government disputes this.
Natur decided in 2007, after 27 years as a kibbutz, to become a 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...
, and an interministerial committee allowed the kibbutz to become only the third in 100 years of the Kibbutz Movement to take such a step. Natur had not drawn new members, reaching only 30 at its height. The other two examples of kibbutzim becoming moshavim were in the 1950s and 1960s, when two religious kibbutzim, Bnei Darom
Bnei Darom
Bnei Darom is a religious moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located near the Mediterranean coast, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council...
and Massuot Yitzhak, became the more socialist form of moshavim, collective moshavim. Twenty-nine new families had already joined the 13 from the original kibbutz by 2007, and there were 90 adults and about 100 children. The kibbutz members will retain ownership of the dairy barn, chicken coops and orchards; but will give up ownership of much of the fields, which will be divided up among the new families.