Shdema is a 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...

 near Gedera

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 in the coastal plain of south-central Israel

Israel

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

. It belongs to the Gederot Regional Council

Gederot Regional Council

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The moshav was founded in 1954 to absorb immigrants to Israel from Persia. After that group refused to live there, it was populated by urban residents who chose to live an agricultural lifestyle and arrived as part of the movement "from city to village."

The word "Shdema", which appears infrequently in the Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible

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, means "field of produce". The original name was "Yefe Nof" .

Category:Moshavim