Settlement Clustering on a Socio-cultural Basis: The Bloc Settlement Policy of the Religious Kibbutz Movement in Palestine

摘要

From the end of World War I, the kibbutz began to play a central role in Jewish agricultural settlement in Palestine. By the time the state was established, nearly 150 kibbutzim dotted the landscape. One of the settlement bodies involved was the Religious Kibbutz Movement, founded in the 1930s, which declared from the outset that its kibbutzim would be organized in clusters. This policy was the product of unique socio-cultural factors (such as the need for religious schooling), and had two components