Bar Yohai (Hebrew: בַּר יוֹחַאי) is a religious Jewish community settlement in northern Israel.

However, the immigrants were not interested in living such a distance from a city nor in such austere conditions (each side of a duplex was less than 60 square meters).

Jewish Agency officials then offered the failing settlement to Religious Zionist families and members of nearby moshavim.

This move was successful and Bar Yohai grew to over 100 families, including a small group of Canadian immigrants.

[2] The community is named after rabbi Simeon bar Yochai who according to Jewish tradition was buried on Mount Meron nearby.