Moshav
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Moshav (מושב Hebrew, plural: moshavim, meaning ""settlement" or "village") is a type of collective agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the labour Zionists during the second aliyah (wave of Jewish immigration during the 19th Century)
The moshavim are similar to kibbutzim with an emphasis on community labour and were designed as part of the Zionist state-building program following the Yishuv ("[Jewish] settlement") in Palestine during the 19th Century. Individuals own their own farms and personal property. Workers produced crops and goods through pooled labour and resources and used profit and foodstuffs to provide for themselvs and their community. Many still exist today.
There are several variants including the following:
- Moshav ovdima, a workers cooperative settlement, and
- Moshav shitufi, a collective smallholder's settlement that combunies the economic features of a kibbutz with the social features of a moshav. Farming is done collectively and profits are shared equally.
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