About a few areas outside of Karmiel:

About a few areas outside of Karmiel:

 I have avoided posting this kind of information because this is primarily for people headed to Karmiel, but I do think it is important to understand that moving into a small, private, closed community rather than a town or city may be more complicated than it appears. If you're not interested in doing so, then just skip this.  Most of the info below was gleaned from various websites, a few of which I have identified.  A lot of the general info was from Wikipedia.

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From Wikipedia:
"A Moshav shitufi (Hebrew:  lit. collective moshav, pl. moshavim shitufiim) is a type of cooperative village in Israel whose organizational principles place it between the kibbutz and the moshav on the scale of cooperation.

A classical moshav (formally known as moshav ovdim, or workers' moshav) is a village-level service cooperative that takes care of farm services (such as marketing, supply, and credit) for its members, while all production and consumption activities are handled at the level of families and households.

A classical kibbutz is a village-level production cooperative, with all production, consumption, and service decisions handled collectively. Moshav shitufi is an intermediate form, in which production and services are handled collectively, while consumption decisions remain the responsibility of the households. Moshav shitufi members are engaged in agriculture and industry in the village and also work in various professions outside the community, contributing their salary to the collective."
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Amrim (Merom HaGalil Regional Council ) is a moshav.

Yodfat (Misgav regional council) is a moshav shitufi.

Parod (Merom HaGalil Regional Council) (next door to Amirim) is a kibbutz.

Kfar Vradim (Northern District) is now recognized as a town, but was originally established as a private community on land bought by Stef Wertheimer (q.v.).

Har Halutz (Misgav Regional Council) was established by the Reform Movement from the US.  It is a yishuv kahilati (a communal village designed for "free enterprise" living (as opposed to collective economic organization found in kibbutzim and moshavim.)

Har Duf  (Jezreel Valley Regional Council.) is a kibbutz Inspired by the Anthroposophic holistic philosophy of Rudolph Steiner, Kibbutz Harduf was established in the lower Galilee in 1982 to create an environment for initiatives in the fields of education, special education,  ecology and organic agriculture and complementary medicine. It aspires to cultivate a community life where people with  special needs can integrate among the kibbutz members.  The Kibbutz's unique approach has led to many initiatives for its members and wider society, among them are:

The Harduf Waldorf School offers a comprehensive K-12 curriculum and a special education track for 500 students from the Galilee  area.

All of these communities and others like them were established to promote a particular ideology and way of life.  In order to become a part of the community, one must undergo an application process which is designed to determine if the applicant is financially and socially suitable to the community. If you have been following the news about Manof, for example, established by S. African olim and located in the Misgav Regional Council, the community is proposing a bylaw for prospective members.

"The bylaw, accepted by an overwhelming majority in Manof, stipulates that applicants must share "the values of the Zionist movement, Jewish heritage, settlement of the Land of Israel . . . and observance of Jewish holidays".
It also proposes that local children be encouraged to join the Zionist youth movement and the Israeli army.
A similarly worded proposal will come before another Misgav community, Yuvalim, later this month.  (exerpted from http://monthlyreview.org/mrzine/cook080609.html)

Moreshet is a religious Yishuv (Misgav Regional Council). Synagogues: Ashkenazi, Sefardi, Turbo. www.moreshet.com

For these and other 'yishuvim," rentals occur occasionally, even rarely.  In order to protect the nature of the community, a prospective renter may have to pass an interview process.  Fees to the community are assessed as 'taxes.'