Natur

Community Characteristics: The Natur vision is based on shared living between secular and religious residents, endowing the settlement with a special character. Diverse individuals with different worldviews seeking what is shared and unifying despite evident differences.

Education: An active education system from early childhood to adulthood. In early childhood, there is a daycare building housing 3 age cohorts from birth to age 3, alongside 2 Ministry of Education kindergartens (Keshet Kindergarten and Rimon Kindergarten). The system is characterized by high staffing standards as part of a settlement educational philosophy, managed by an education director from kibbutz education. In community-social education: elementary is divided into grades 1–3 club and grades 4–6 club. Youth is divided into grades 7–8 and grades 9–12. During 2026, the 'Adat HaTzofim' youth movement, representing religious and mixed scout troops, is slated to enter the settlement.

Formal Education: Within Natur sits the 'Shorashim' elementary school (grades 1–8), founded by Natur's first mixed gar'in, imparting to the school its unique character – integrating secular and religious students and inclusive of special needs. The school and settlement are accompanied by 'Meitarim', promoting secular-religious shared living. Adjacent to it are 2 Golan Regional Council kindergartens serving as special education kindergartens, also linked to the formal educational systems in the settlement.

Upon reaching high school, youth branch out into several educational frameworks across the Golan and the Jordan Valley according to their preference – secular or religious, technological or agricultural schools, as well as several high school yeshivas.

Furthermore, within the settlement area, 2 high school yeshivas operate affiliated with the Ruach HaGolan association: Yeshivat TAMAR as a religious-technological boarding school, and Yeshivat Regavim as an educational-agricultural institution.

Absorption: Currently in final marketing stages of Phase B3, which included 25 community plots and 4 agricultural parcels. In the next stage (Phase C), 62 community plots and 8 agricultural parcels are planned.

Natur Covenant: We, the members of the Natur community, hereby declare as follows:

• We recognize the essential need to strengthen the sense of unity and shared destiny among the diverse components of the Jewish people and to develop settlement in the Land of Israel in general and the Golan in particular.
• We respect the beliefs and ways of life of the individuals comprising the Natur community and work to establish a patient and tolerant society where each member finds their place.
• We believe in the importance of dialogue between secular and religious individuals and in shared living.
• We aspire to create and promote a unique Jewish-Zionist culture in accordance with the values of community members.
• We work to achieve shared goals, understanding that we share much in common, and must preserve our unity and uniqueness.
• We champion the existence of a joint educational system for religious and secular students, as an inseparable part of our chosen way of life and to instill community values in the younger generation.