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Moshava
Agricultural Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel region (now Israel) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A moshava (Hebrew: מושבה, plural: moshavot מושבות, lit. colony or village) is a form of agricultural Jewish settlement, in Israel, established by the members of the Old Yishuv beginning in the late 1870s and during the first two waves of Jewish Zionist immigration – the First and Second Aliyah.
Not to be confused with Moshav.
See also: Kibbutz
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