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'''Moshavim '''are an [intentional
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community](Intentional_Community "wikilink") and
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[cooperative](cooperative "wikilink") in [Israel](Israel "wikilink"),
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they are different to [Kibbutzim](Kibbutzim "wikilink") as they do not
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farm in [common](Commons "wikilink"), but on individually owned land of
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fixed and equal size. The first Moshav, Moshav Nahalal was founded in
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[September
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1921](Timeline_of_Libertarian_Socialism_in_Western_Asia "wikilink") and
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there are 451 Moshav in Israel.
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## Decision-Making
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Moshavim are governed by an elected council.
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## Economy
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Workers produced crops and goods on their properties through individual
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and/or pooled labour and resources and used profit and foodstuffs to
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provide for themselves. Community projects and facilities were financed
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by a special tax (Hebrew: מס ועד, *mas va'ad*, lit. *committee tax*).
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This tax was equal for all households of the community, thus creating a
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system where good farmers were better off than bad ones, unlike in the
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communal kibbutzim where (at least theoretically) all members enjoyed
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the same living standard.
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## Culture
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Because the moshav organisation retained the family as the centre of
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social life, it was much more attractive to traditional Mizrahi
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immigrants in the 1950s and early 1960s; they eschewed bold experiments,
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like communal child-rearing or equality of the sexes, practiced by the
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more radical communal kibbutz. These so-called "immigrants' moshav"
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(Hebrew: מושב עולים, *moshav olim*) were one of the most-used and
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successful forms of absorption and integration of Oriental immigrants;
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it allowed them a much steadier ascent into the middle class than did
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life in some development towns. For this reason, the moshav became
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largely a Mizrahi institution, whereas the kibbutz movement remained
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basically an Ashkenazi institution.\[1\]
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## References
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<references />
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1. [Wikipedia](Wikipedia "wikilink") -
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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshav> |