Sheet 19931410

Color: Black & White
Country: Israel
Region: Bet Shearim
Place: Afula
Date: Dec 22, 1993

Image of sheet 19931410 photo 9: Moshav (Hebrew: מוֹשָׁב, plural מוֹשָׁבִים moshavim, lit. settlement, village) is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second wave of aliyah (lit. "ascent [to Eretz Yisrael]": refers to the act of Jewish emigration to Israel). A resident or a member of a moshav can be called a "moshavnik" (מוֹשַׁבְנִיק).

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