Religious Kibbutz Movement
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The Religious Kibbutz Movement (Hebrew: הקיבוץ הדתי, HaKibbutz HaDati) is an organizational framework for Orthodox kibbutzim in Israel. Its membership includes 22 communities, 16 of them traditional kibbutzim, and 6 others in the category of Moshav shitufi, meaning that they have no communal dining hall or children's house but maintain a shared economy. The Religious Kibbutz Movement has about 15,000 members. It is not part of the secular Kibbutz Movement with its c. 230 kibbutzim, and it does not include the two Poalei Agudat Yisrael-affiliated religious kibbutzim.
History
The Religious Kibbutz Movement was founded in 1935 by groups of Jewish pioneers who immigrated to Palestine from Europe.
Settlement blocs
In 1937–1948, the Religious Kibbutz Movement established three settlement blocs of three kibbutzim each. The first was in the
Current trends
Many kibbutzim of the Religious Kibbutz Movement are in the midst of
List of member kibbutzim
Lower Galilee
- Beit Rimon
- Lavi
- Nir Etzion (Moshav Shitufi)
- Ein HaNatziv
- Sde Eliyahu
- Shluhot
- Tirat Zvi
- Shadmot Mehola (moshav shitufi)
Center
Shafir Region
- Ein Tzurim
- Massuot Yitzhak(moshav shitufi)
Western Negev
- Alumim
- Sa'ad
- Beit Yatir (moshav shitufi)
- Ma'on(moshav shitufi)
- Carmel(moshav shitufi)
See also
- Settlement movement (Israel), the wider communal settlement movement within the pre-1967 borders
- Midreshet Ein HaNetziv
References
- ^ a b c d "Settlement clustering on a socio-cultural basis: The bloc settlement policy of the Religious Kibbutz Movement in Palestine," Yossi Katz, Journal of Rural Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 161–171, 1995
External links
- The Religious Kibbutz Movement Archived 2022-03-28 at the Wayback Machine