From Communal Societies, vol. 32 no.2, 2012

Located in a residential neighborhood of Migdal Ha’Emeq—a former development town in the North District of Israel—Kvutsat Yovel is one of a number of urban communes, or “kvutzot,” established in Israel by alumni of diaspora-based socialist Zionist youth movement Habonim Dror. 1 A product of debates in the youth movement during the late 1990s, echoing those of the previous decade in the Israeli youth movements that culminated in a shift away from rural kibbutz-building in favor of urban communalism, 2 Yovel began life in a Jerusalem suburb in January 1999. In 2002 the group moved to Migdal Ha’Emeq to join a cluster of similar kvutzot formed by alumni of Israeli youth movement HaMachanot HaOlim. This aggregation then consisted of five kvutzot with a combined membership of around forty-five, and it has since evolved into a “kibbutz of kvutzot,” comprising ten communes with a total of around one hundred adult members. As of 2010 the kibbutz has gone under the name of Mish’ol.3 Yovel itself has expanded in membership, currently consisting of three members from the United Kingdom, one from Australia, two from North America, and four former kibbutzniks from the Kvutzot HaBechira and Ha’noar Ha’oved (NOAL) youth movements in Israel, who completed the joining process in 2009.

From haaretz.com

The kibbutz youth movement has started an adult branch - on the theory that some of its pioneering ideals can best be realized by adults.

Yair Raviv and Inbal Paran-Perah grew up in kibbutzim, Yair at Kibbutz Revivim and Paran at Beit Ha’emek near Nahariya. As youngsters, they were members of the youth movement Kvutzat Hebehira, which is what the kibbutz youth movement was called until it united with Mahanot Ha’olim about a decade ago. But having concluded that the youth movement’s pioneering ideals could only be realized after the army, Mahanot Ha’olim established a movement for adults, part of a joint venture among the three socialist Zionist youth movements (Hano’ar Halomed Veha’oved, Hashomer Hatza’ir and Mahanot Ha’olim).