at the end of the 1980s, a large number of jews from the former soviet union settled in katzrin. today, a third of the city’s residents are jews from soviet union and their descendants. religious educators also moved to katzrin, establishing a religious day school and a premilitary academy. katzrin is divided into six neighborhoods: gamla, naveh, kedma, afek, batra, and chen. building of infrastructure for an additional neighborhood, yovel, began in 2018.