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Shoval is a kibbutz

Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a Intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The kibbutz is a form of communal living that combines socialism and Zionism....
in the northern Negev

Negev

The Negev is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The indigenous Negev Bedouin inhabitants of the region refer to the desert as al-Naqab ....
desert

Désert

?D?sert? is ?milie Simon's debut single, released in October 2002. The song was a huge success both critically and commercially in her homeland....
in Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. Located near the Bedouin city of Rahat

Rahat

Rahat is a city in the South District of Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2007 the city had a total population of 42,200....
, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bnei Shimon Regional Council

Bnei Shimon Regional Council

The Bnei Shimon Regional Council , is a regional council in the northern Negev in the south of Israel. Most of its territory lies north of Beersheba and the rest bounds Beersheba on the west and east sides as well....
.

kibbutz was founded on October 6th 1946 as part of the 11 points

11 points in the Negev

11 points in the Negev was a Jewish Agency for Israel settlement operation in 1946 carried out in order to create a Jewish presence in the Negev desert prior to any United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine of Palestine....
operation by a gar'in whose members were of Hashomer Hatzair

Hashomer Hatzair

Hashomer Hatzair is a Socialist-Zionism youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia , Austria-Hungary, and was also the name of the group's political party in the Yishuv in the pre-1948 British Mandate of Palestine....
and immigrants who had survived the Patria disaster

Patria disaster

The Patria disaster occurred on 25 November 1940 when the Patria, a France-built ocean liner, sank in Haifa harbour after a bomb carried covertly on board exploded, killing 260 people, and injuring another 172....
. Its name was taken from two passages in the Books of Chronicles

Books of Chronicles

LocationIn the masoretic text, Chronicles is part of the third part of the Tanakh, namely Ketuvim . In most printed versions it is the last book in Ketuvim ....
. The population of Shoval is about 600 people, 200 of which are kibbutz members.

al has two major sources of income; agriculture

Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
and plastics manufacturing.

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Shoval is a kibbutz

Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a Intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The kibbutz is a form of communal living that combines socialism and Zionism....
in the northern Negev

Negev

The Negev is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The indigenous Negev Bedouin inhabitants of the region refer to the desert as al-Naqab ....
desert

Désert

?D?sert? is ?milie Simon's debut single, released in October 2002. The song was a huge success both critically and commercially in her homeland....
in Israel

Israel

Rahat

Bnei Shimon Regional Council

History

The kibbutz was founded on October 6th 1946 as part of the 11 points

11 points in the Negev

Hashomer Hatzair

Patria disaster

Books of Chronicles

Economy

Shoval has two major sources of income; agriculture

Agriculture

Na'an

Na'an is a kibbutz near the city of Rehovot in Israel. Located within the Center District , it is under the jurisdiction of Gezer Regional Council, and borders the villages Ganei Hadar, Ramot Meir and Sitria....
. It also has a vast area of arable land

Arable land

In geography, arable land is an agriculture term, meaning land that can be used for growing agriculture. Arable land is currently being lost at the rate of over 200,000 km? per year....
where wheat

Wheat

Wheat , is a worldwide cultivated Poaceae from the Levant region of the Middle East. Globally, after maize, wheat is the second most-produced food among the cereal just above rice....
, barley

Barley

Barley is an annual plant cereal grain derived from the grass Hordeum vulgare. It serves as a major animal feed crop, with smaller amounts used for malting and in health food, as well as the making of alcoholic beverages beer and whisky....
and potatoes are grown. In addition there are several chicken coop

Chicken coop

File:Chicken coop in winter.jpgA chicken coop is a building where chickens are kept. Interiors usually have nest boxes for egg laying, and also perches for the birds to sleep on....
s that are mainly used to raise chickens for meat

Meat

In modern English usage, meat most often refers to animal biological tissue used as food, mostly skeletal muscle and associated fat, but it may also refer to offal, including livers, skin, brains, bone marrow, kidneys, in some countries lungs, and a variety of other internal organs as well as blood....
. The kibbutz also operates a plastic seals manufacturing plant named Seal Jet.

Education

In 1963, a regional high school was built named Mevo'ot HaNegev in the kibbutz. The school serves pupils of the ages of 12-18 from the kibbutz and the surrounding settlements. The education system in the kibbutz also includes kindergartens and the young students learn in the Nitzanei HaNegev elementary school

Elementary school

An elementary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as Primary education. Elementary school is the preferred term in many countries, especially in North America....
in Beit Kama

Beit Kama

Beit Kama is a kibbutz in the northern Negev desert in Israel. It belongs to the jurisdiction of Bnei Shimon Regional Council....
. The kibbutz also hosts an ulpan

Ulpan

An ulpan is an institute or school for the intensive study of Hebrew language. Ulpan is a Hebrew language word meaning basically studio or teaching, instruction....
for teaching the Hebrew language

Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
and its students study and work in the kibbutz.

Notable residents

Yehuda Bauer
Yehuda Bauer

Yehuda Bauer is a historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
, historian
Elazar Granot
Elazar Granot

Elazar Granot is an Israeli politician and a writer. He currently resides in Kibbutz Shoval....
, signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence and former member of the Knesset
Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
Yehudit Kafri
Yehudit Kafri

Yehudit Kafri Meiri is a 20th century Israel poet and a writer.She was born in 1935 and lived as a child in Kibbutz Ein HaHoresh in the Galilee area of Israel....
, poet and author
Danny Robas
Danny Robas

Danny Robas is an Israeli pop-rock singer and songwriter.Robas was born in 1957 in Kibbutz Shoval, a community in the north of the Negev desert....
, musician

External links

in the Jerusalem Post.