Moshav

[2] They were designed as part of the Zionist state-building programme following the green revolution Yishuv (Hebrew for 'settlement') in the British Mandate of Palestine during the early 20th century, but in contrast to the collective farming kibbutzim, farms in a moshav tended to be individually owned but of fixed and equal size.

Workers produced crops and other goods on their properties through individual or pooled labour with the profit and foodstuffs going to provide for themselves.

Community projects and facilities were financed by a special tax (Hebrew: מס ועד, romanized: mas va'ad, lit.

Financial instabilities in the early 1980s hit many moshavim hard, as did their high birth rate and the problem of absorbing all the children who might wish to remain in the community.

In general, moshavim never enjoyed the "political elite" status afforded to kibbutzim during the period of Israeli Labor Party dominance; correspondingly the moshavim did not endure the decline in prestige experienced by kibbutzim in the 1970s and 1980s, during the period of Likud dominance starting in 1977.