Kfar HaNoar HaDati (, lit. ''The Religious Youth Village'') is a

youth village A youth village () 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 pioneers in this sphere, known as youth ...

in northern

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

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

Zevulun Regional Council Zevulun Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Zvulun'') is a regional council in the Haifa District of Israel. Founded in 1950, it had a population of 10,900 in 2006. The council borders Mateh Asher Regional Council to the north, Jezreel Valley ...

. 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, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

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