Community settlement (Israel)

A community settlement ( Hebrew: יישוב קהילתי, Yishuv Kehilati ) is a cooperative village in Israel, which is not involved in agriculture. In contrast to a kibbutz or moshav one, economic cooperation between residents is only very loosely. Most residents work outside the settlement.

Legal Structure

A community development is a cooperative in which all residents are members. The plots of the entire village belong to a society where the rule of the Jewish National Fund and the Israel Land Administration (ILA ). The individual plots and properties are only leased or rented to the members of the cooperative. A community settlement is similar to a housing association in the size of a whole settlement. The residents pay a separate delivery to the Committee of the Community settlement, so that finances public facilities such as daycare, synagogues, grocery stores, sports facilities, swimming pools. The communal settlements offer a high standard of living and quality of life, including a private home in a religious site, as well as a strong society with shared values ​​, but typify without socialism, the kibbutzim and moshavim. The settlements are relatively small, as a rule, between a hundred and a thousand inhabitants. Some are even smaller, with less than 30 inhabitants.

Common features

• Most communal settlements are small and have no more than a few hundred inhabitants. They are thus too small to form their own local government. They usually belong to a regional administration. Community development is managed by a local committee, which may form committees for specific tasks.
• The communal settlements usually consist financed by the cooperative houses.
• The inhabitants are very involved in the rule of life within the community settlement.
• A location outside of densely populated urban areas, surrounded by a natural landscape
• Will someone in a community settlement buy a house or open a business, it needs the approval of the residents. This is usually done via an admissions committee.
• In the selection of new members of the inhabitants of a community settlement have great influence. You can have certain ideas are to have the new members or allow only the assumption peers. These include ethnicity, religious beliefs, marital status, common ideology, membership of a particular generation, social class, or a particular group of immigrants.

History

The first community settlement in Israel was founded in 1953 Neve Monosson. 1976 independent association was founded.

The Likud government promoted in 1977 the construction of settlements in the occupied territories. These are very often community settlement.

2010, there were about 170 communal settlements in Israel.

List

Current community settlements ( incomplete):

Pictures

(Selection)

Community settlement Alon Schewut

Community settlement Bat Ayin

Community settlement Bet Choron

Community settlement Gewa Benjamin

Communal village of Kfar Adumim

Community settlement Nokdim

Community Ofra settlement

Community settlement Psagot

Communal village of Tekoa