Youth village

A youth village (Hebrew: כפר נוער, romanized: 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 pioneers in this sphere, known as youth aliyah, creating an educational facility that was a cross between a European boarding school and a kibbutz.

Today some of the villages have closed, but many continue to provide an educational framework for immigrant youth.

In 2007, Yemin Orde Youth Village, established in the early 1950s on Mount Carmel, had a student population consisting of youngsters from all over the world, including Muslim refugees from Darfur.

It creates a strong, influential environment that neutralizes the negative influence of an underprivileged neighborhood, promotes social integration, and provides a broad range of extracurricular activities that may not be available in the home setting.