Word: moshavah
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...Aviv (Hill of Spring) became the first all-Jewish city. One out of four Jews went to farms. Colonists of every political shading organized settlements-the Moshavah, middle-class farm villages where all own their own property; the Moshav, cooperatives where farmers work their own farms, leased from the Jewish National Fund; the Kvutzah, collective colonies where all work under orders of a central committee, and no one owns any personal property; the Kibbutz, workers' communes, including industrial workers as well as farmers, who turn their earnings into a common fund...
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