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  • noun Plural form of moshav.

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Examples

  • Settlers can be made to experience similar communal identities in intimate residential communities within the Green Line, including Israel's many kibbutzim and moshavim, as well as the relatively recent gated "communal neighborhoods."

    Mira Sucharov: West Bank Settlers' Buy-in Mira Sucharov 2010

  • Settlers can be made to experience similar communal identities in intimate residential communities within the Green Line, including Israel's many kibbutzim and moshavim, as well as the relatively recent gated "communal neighborhoods."

    Mira Sucharov: West Bank Settlers' Buy-in Mira Sucharov 2010

  • Settlers can be made to experience similar communal identities in intimate residential communities within the Green Line, including Israel's many kibbutzim and moshavim, as well as the relatively recent gated "communal neighborhoods."

    Mira Sucharov: West Bank Settlers' Buy-in Mira Sucharov 2010

  • Similarly, the kibbutzim and moshavim joined the Histadrut on a collective basis, which also included men and women.

    Histadrut. 2009

  • Thousands of young Brits have worked on Israel's kibbutzim and moshavim and retain a deep affection for the place.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • After being housed in transit camps, many of the immigrants were directed to agricultural settlements (moshavim) (Zadok 1985; Lisak 1999).

    Yemenite Women in Israel: 1948 to the Present Day. 2009

  • The counseling department also provided counselors for kibbutzim, and later to moshavim, to help with growing vegetables.

    WIZO: Women's International Zionist Organization (1920-1970). 2009

  • Though it was primarily oriented towards city workers, inhabitants of the communal kibbutzim and other semi-collective settlements (moshavim) also became members of the Histadrut.

    Histadrut. 2009

  • In 1941, ninety-seven percent of all female workers in cooperative settlements (moshavim) were married, and fifty-nine percent of female workers in kibbutzim were married as compared to thirty-seven percent in the cities.

    Women in the Yishuv Workforce. 2009

  • From then until the day of her death, she immersed herself in work for the new wave of immigration, especially in teaching Mizrahi women on new moshavim.

    Devorah Dayan. 2009

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