Agricultural Union
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The Agricultural Union is a settlement movement
Settlement movement (Israel)
Settlement movement is a term used in Israel to describe national umbrella organisations for kibbutzim, moshavim, moshavim shitufiim, and communal settlements...

 in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 for agricultural villages, which includes several moshav
Moshav
Moshav is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah...

im and communal settlement
Communal settlement (Israel)
A community settlement is a type of town in Israel. While in an ordinary town anyone may buy property, in a community settlement the town's residents, who are organized in a cooperative, can veto a sale of a house or a business to an undesirable buyer....

. It also has a youth movement founded in 1978.

Member communities

  • Avtalion
    Avtalion
    Avtalion is a communal settlement in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee to the south of Arraba, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 329....

  • Batzra
    Batzra
    Batzra is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Ra'anana, it was redeemed by South African Jewry. In 1947 it had a population of 80. It falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 868....

  • Beit Yanai
    Beit Yanai
    Beit Yanai is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea around 6 kilometres north of Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council...

  • Beka'ot
    Beka'ot
    Beka'ot is a moshav and Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located in the Jordan Valley with an area of 1,800 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 171...

  • Beitan Aharon
    Beitan Aharon
    Bitan Aharon is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain between Hadera and Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 213....

  • Bnei Zion
    Bnei Zion
    Bnei Zion is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain around four and a half kilometres north of Ra'anana, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council...

  • Dekel
    Dekel
    Dekel , officially Dekel-Kfar Shitufi is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Hevel Shalom area of the north-western Negev desert near the Egypt-Gaza Strip-Israel border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council...

  • Eshbal
    Eshbal
    Eshbal is a small kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Lower Galilee near Karmiel, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 53.The village was founded in 1979 as a Nahal settlement...

  • Gan HaShomron
    Gan HaShomron
    Gan HaShomron is a moshav located north-east of Hadera , on the road to Afula, Highway 65. It is named for its location on at the foot of the Shomron mountains. It was established in the spring of 1934 by Jewish immigrants from Germany who trained as farmers in Nahalal and Ein Shemer...

  • Ganot
    Ganot
    Gannot is a moshav in central Israel. Located near the Hiriya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lod Valley Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 513....

  • Givat Shapira
    Givat Shapira
    Givat Shapira is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 218....

  • Hadar Am
    Hadar Am
    Hadar Am is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council...

  • Hamra
    Hamra, Bik'at HaYarden
    Hamra is a moshav and Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located in the Jordan Valley and covering 3,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council...

  • Har Amasa
    Har Amasa
    Har Amasa is a communal settlement in the south of Israel. Located near the Yatir Forest 20 kilometres south of Hebron and 14 km northeast of Arad, it is the only member of the Tamar Regional Council to be located in the highlands outside the Great Rift Valley.It was named after the nearby...

  • Havatzelet HaSharon
    Havatzelet HaSharon
    Havazzelet HaSharon is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Natanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 280....

  • Herev Le'et
    Herev Le'et
    Herev Le'et is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain to the south of Hadera and covering 1,750 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 796....

  • Kisalon
  • Ilaniya
    Ilaniya
    - Bibliography : * ed. Yuval Elazari - Map's Concise Gazetteer of Israel Today MAP - Mapping and Publishing, Tel Aviv, 2003...

  • Kfar Ben Nun
    Kfar Ben Nun
    Kfar Bin Nun is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Ayalon Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gezer Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 473....

  • Kfar Mordechai
    Kfar Mordechai
    Kfar Mordechai is a village in central Israel, located about 30 kilometers south of Tel Aviv, between Ashdod, Gedera and Yavne. The village was established in 1950 by British and South African Jews and by some ex-kibbutz members, near the ruins of a Palestinian Arab village called Bashshit...

  • Kfar Netter
    Kfar Netter
    Kfar Netter is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain near Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council...

  • Kisalon
  • Klahim
    Klahim
    Klahim is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the north-western Negev near Netivot, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merhavim Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 307....

  • Klil
    Klil
    Klil is a communal settlement in northern Israel. Located near Nahariya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 351....

  • Koranit
    Koranit
    Koranit is a communal settlement in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee on Mount Shekhanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 655....

  • Magshimim
    Magshimim
    Magshimim is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Yehud, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 771.The moshav was formed in 1949 by demobilised IDF soldiers...

  • Manof
  • Mekhora
  • Mitzpe Aviv
    Mitzpe Aviv
    Mitzpe Aviv is a communal settlement in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee near I'billin and Tamra, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 708.The village was established in 1981...

  • Neve Ativ
    Neve Ativ
    Neve Ativ , is a small Alpine-styled Israeli settlement in the Golan Heights, founded in 1972, and located on the slopes of Mount Hermon, west of Majdal Shams. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli...

  • Nir Tzvi
    Nir Tzvi
    Nir Tz'vi is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Lod, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lod Valley Regional Council. In 2007 it had a population of 1,100....

  • Ro'i
    Ro'i
    Ro'i is a moshav and Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located in the Jordan Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 128....

  • Sde Tzvi
    Sde Tzvi
    Sde Tzvi is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the north-western Negev near Rahat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merhavim Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 362.The village was established in 1953 by immigrants from North Africa...

  • Shavei Tzion
    Shavei Tzion
    Shavei Tzion is a moshav shitufi in northern Israel. Located between Acre and Nahariya and covering 2,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 654....

  • Shekhanya
    Shekhanya
    Shekhanya is a communal settlement in northern Israel. It is named after a priest family from the Bible . Located in the Galilee between Karmiel and Shefa-'Amr, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council...

  • Sho'eva
    Sho'eva
    Sho'eva is a moshav in central Israel. Located west of Jerusalem, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 514....

  • Talmei Elazar
    Talmei Elazar
    Talmei Elazar is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the eastern Sharon plain to the north-east of Hadera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 693....

  • Talmei Yosef
    Talmei Yosef
    Talmei Yosef is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Hevel Shalom area of the north-western Negev desert near the Gaza Strip border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 178....

  • Udim
    Udim
    Udim is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 822.The moshav was established in 1948 by Holocaust survivors...

  • Yad HaShmona
    Yad HaShmona
    Yad Hashmona , is a small moshav shitufi in central Israel, located in the Judean Mountains near Jerusalem, within the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.-History:...

  • Yevul
    Yevul
    Yevul is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Hevel Shalom area of the north-western Negev desert near the Gaza Strip–Egypt border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. Founded in 1981 by evacuees from Sinai...

  • Yokneam Moshava
    Yokneam Moshava
    Yokneam Moshava is a rural settlement in northern Israel, on the outskirts of the city of Yokneam. Located to the southeast of Carmel City, it falls under the jurisdiction of Megiddo Regional Council. In 2007 it had a population of 1,100. The village was established in 1935 by immigrants from...

  • Zohar


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