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roughly described according to
four general characteristics,
although in reality there are many

more overlaps and differences
between them all, so this

terminology can be misleading:
Local residents (immigrants and
minorities); Religious (modern

Orthodox and Charedi);
Educational/Cooperative and

Secular/Pluralist.

1. Local Residents' Community

Networks: There are three
networks of immigrant activist

communities, based primarily
upon local young adult
leadership groups taking

responsibility for their own
community's neighborhoods and

thereby improving Israeli
society at large. Hineini and Chaverim B'Teva are networks of Ethiopian immigrant
communities and M'Dor L'Dor is a network of Caucasian (ie from the Caucasus

region) immigrant communities. In terms of the process of forming the communities
and their social action projects, the Druze network Ofakim L'Atid is similar to the

immigrant networks, in that the community members are also local groups of young
adults who are coming together in order to improve their wider communities and
Israeli society.

The other twelve community building organizations are different in that they typically

involve people deliberately moving their residential locations in order to form their
communities and their social action projects in neighborhoods which they identify as
relevant, often due to their socio-economic and/or geographic marginalization.

2. Religious Community Networks: There are three networks of religious 'Garin Torani'
communities, including two which are 'Modern Orthodox' / 'National Religious' – the

Bnei Akiva youth movement (which historically built many religious 'traditional'
kibbutzim) graduate movement and the huge Keren Kehillot community network – and

also the Nettiot network which includes Ultra Orthodox and 'Baal Teshuva'

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