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- noun Plural form of
moshava .
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Examples
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Such collaboration led one coexistence-minded immigrant to write that “in general, the relations between Jews and Arabs in the old moshavot agricultural communities were good.”
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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Such collaboration led one coexistence-minded immigrant to write that “in general, the relations between Jews and Arabs in the old moshavot agricultural communities were good.”
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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Such collaboration led one coexistence-minded immigrant to write that “in general, the relations between Jews and Arabs in the old moshavot agricultural communities were good.”
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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Thus, in 1935, according to a census of one of the largest moshavot, Haderah, thirty-eight percent were married.
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According to reports by the Jewish Agency during the summer months of 1938, at peak unemployment in the moshavot, female unemployment was at its lowest, 28 percent of total unemployed, while at months of very low general unemployment in the winter it reached 51 percent.
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The battle for participation in the committees of Jewish communities and the moshavot continued longer than the struggle on the national level.
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In the moshavot women were employed in citrus groves as a secondary labor force during picking and sorting seasons.
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Many immigrants were sent to the moshavot despite the fact that the proportion of pioneers among migrants was declining.
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Sarah and her siblings belonged to and characterized the second generation of the First Aliyah (1881 – 1904), the native-born and Hebrew speaking youth in agricultural settlements (moshavot) based on privately owned property and organized around a family economy.
Sarah Aaronsohn. 2009
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The young laborers decided that they might find a solution by leaving Petah Tikvah and moving to the Galilee, where the moshavot were younger, but the poverty greater.
Sarah Malkhin. 2009
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