Definitions
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- noun An Israeli cooperative settlement consisting of small separate farms.
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- noun An
Israeli town orsettlement : in particular, a type ofcooperative agricultural community of individualfarms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah.
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- noun a cooperative Israeli village or settlement comprised of small farms
Etymologies
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Examples
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A moshav is a cooperative settlement, though not all-out cooperative like a kibbutz.
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Over the next few days Rachel and I visited a “moshav” a collective where each family had its own cottage and a couple of kibbutzim.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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Was this not the very identity of the State of Israel in the first place—the land of the kibbutz and the moshav, of hard-won irrigation for communities in the desert?
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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Was this not the very identity of the State of Israel in the first place—the land of the kibbutz and the moshav, of hard-won irrigation for communities in the desert?
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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Over the next few days Rachel and I visited a “moshav” a collective where each family had its own cottage and a couple of kibbutzim.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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Was this not the very identity of the State of Israel in the first place—the land of the kibbutz and the moshav, of hard-won irrigation for communities in the desert?
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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Their acclimation in these rural settlements proved difficult due to both their lack of agricultural experience and their traditional social structure which went counter to the principles of the moshav.
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I lived on the so-called West bank in a moshav near Jericho.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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She immigrated to Erez Israel together with her family on May 19, 1935, and settled in the moshav, Bet Hanan.
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Kivel also worked with the sabra children in the moshav school of Tel Mond as a eurhythmics and folk dance teacher.
MaryW commented on the word moshav
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