Havat HaNoar HaTzioni was established in 1949 as a home for 40 Jewish orphans who lost their families in the Holocaust.

[2] In the summers, Havat HaNoar HaTzioni is one of the home bases of the Ramah Israel Seminar, a program affiliated with Camp Ramah, a network of Jewish summer camps in North America.

[4] The Lycée Havat-Hanoar-Hatsioni, a French international school, is affiliated with the youth village.

Its terminale (final year of senior high school) classes were created in 1967/1968 by two groups: Nathanya by Léon Ashkénazi and Alyat Hanoar in Nazareth.

* This school is in East Jerusalem, a disputed territory which is under Israeli control, and claimed by the Palestinian Authority