Word: moshavim
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...conflict is also between tradition and progress, farm and factory. Abhorring the very idea of living in industrial townships, the Bedouins argue instead for the creation of their own moshavim, the model agricultural cooperatives that have been especially successful in the northern Sinai. But Israeli government officials have long insisted that the tribesmen are needed as a labor force for new industries that are planned for the Negev. Moreover, the well-equipped, high production moshavim require large tracts and expensive irrigation. And, as one senior official bluntly told TIME's Lesley Hazleton, "I'm not giving good Jewish...
...heroic efforts, these new immigrants succeeded in creating almost a whole-new separate Jewish sector of Palestine's economy. Jews who'd been city workers or intellectuals in Europe set up the collective farms and co-operatives, the kibbutzim and moshavim, that helped drain swamps and make things grow and became, for awhile, in the case of the kibbutzim, the wonder of socialists around the world...
...Zambia, President Kenneth Kaunda regularly sends foreign visitors into the northern forest to visit Kafulafuta and Kafubu, twin settlements where 500 Zambian families are living on chicken farms patterned after the Israeli rural cooperatives known as moshavim. With help from a team of nine Israelis, the two cooperatives have reached a point where they now produce 500,000 eggs monthly...
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