Kfar HaNoar HaDati ( he, כפר הנוער הדתי, lit. ''The Religious Youth Village'') is a

youth village A youth village ( he, כפר נוער, ''Kfar No'ar'') is a boarding school model first developed in Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s to care for groups of children and teenagers fleeing the Nazis. Henrietta Szold and Recha Freier were the pionee ...

in northern

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. Adjacent to Kfar Hassidim, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Zevulun Regional Council Zevulun Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית זבולון, ''Mo'atza Azorit Zvulun'') is a regional council (Israel), regional council in the Haifa District of Israel. Founded in 1950, it had a population of 10,900 in 2006. The council ...

. In it had a population of .

History

The school was founded in 1936 and today teaches around 350 students from seventh to twelfth grade, most of whom are new immigrants from

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

who arrive at the school with the help of

Youth Aliyah Youth Aliyah (Hebrew: עלית הנוער, ''Aliyat Hano'ar'', German: Jugend-Alijah, Youth Immigration) is a Jewish organization that rescued thousands of Jewish children from the Nazis during the Third Reich. Youth Aliyah arranged for their r ...

. File:Kfar Hassidim Youth.JPG, Ohel Yitzhak Synagogue on the premises File:Ethiopian hut.JPG, Tukul hut built in Kfar HaNoar HaDati Kfar Hasidim

References

Youth villages in Israel Populated places established in 1936 1936 establishments in Mandatory Palestine Populated places in Haifa District Ethiopian-Jewish culture in Israel {{Israel-geo-stub