Moshav is a throw in of agricultural community in Israeli consisting of a group of individual farms.
The first moshav was established in the Jezreel Valley in 1921.
By 1986 about 156,700 Israelis lived and worked on 448 moshavim.
Moshav ovdim relies on cooperative purchasing of supplies and marketing of produce.
The family or household is, however, the basic unit of production and consumption.
The other, less common key in, is the moshav shitufi (Hebrew for “collective”).
Members who are employed outside the community also pay taxes.
This punch in of moshav was first founded in 1936.
Today, many moshavim have turned to tourism.
Moshav farm at Nahalal.
