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Yesha (lit. Salvation) is an agricultural
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....
 moshav
Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms settlered by the Labor Zionisms during the second aliyah ....
 in southern Israel. Located in the Hevel Shalom
Hevel Shalom

Hevel Shalom is an area in the western Negev desert close to Israel's border with the Gaza Strip and Egypt's Sinai. This area was elected to be substitutive area for evacuees from Yamit....
 area of the 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, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council
Eshkol Regional Council

The Eshkol Regional Council is a regional council in the north-western Negev, in Israel's Southern District . The regional council's territory lies midway between Ashkelon and Beersheba, bounded on the west by the Gaza Strip while the eastern border abuts the territory of the Bnei Shimon Regional Council....
. In 2006 it had a population of 2007.

The moshav was established in 1957 by Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
s who were expelled from Egypt
Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
 in the wake of the 1956 Suez Crisis
Suez Crisis

The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, was a military attack on Egypt by United Kingdom, France, and Israel beginning on 29 October 1956....
, though this population eventually left, and was replaced by new settlers. The residents work 2,000 dunam
Dunam

A dunam or d?n?m, dunum, donum is a Units of measurement of area used in the Ottoman Empire and still used, in various standardized versions, in many countries formerly part of the Ottoman Empire....
s (2 kmē).






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Yesha (lit. Salvation) is an agricultural
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....
 moshav
Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms settlered by the Labor Zionisms during the second aliyah ....
 in southern Israel. Located in the Hevel Shalom
Hevel Shalom

Hevel Shalom is an area in the western Negev desert close to Israel's border with the Gaza Strip and Egypt's Sinai. This area was elected to be substitutive area for evacuees from Yamit....
 area of the 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, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council
Eshkol Regional Council

The Eshkol Regional Council is a regional council in the north-western Negev, in Israel's Southern District . The regional council's territory lies midway between Ashkelon and Beersheba, bounded on the west by the Gaza Strip while the eastern border abuts the territory of the Bnei Shimon Regional Council....
. In 2006 it had a population of 2007.

The moshav was established in 1957 by Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
s who were expelled from Egypt
Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
 in the wake of the 1956 Suez Crisis
Suez Crisis

The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, was a military attack on Egypt by United Kingdom, France, and Israel beginning on 29 October 1956....
, though this population eventually left, and was replaced by new settlers. The residents work 2,000 dunam
Dunam

A dunam or d?n?m, dunum, donum is a Units of measurement of area used in the Ottoman Empire and still used, in various standardized versions, in many countries formerly part of the Ottoman Empire....
s (2 kmē). Moshav Yesha has been subject to several Qassam rocket
Qassam rocket

The Qassam rocket is a simple steel rocket filled with explosives, produced by Hamas. Three models have been used. They are all free-flying artillery rockets lacking any guidance system....
 attacks launched from the Gaza Strip
Gaza Strip

The Gaza Strip is a coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Egypt on the south-west and Israel on the south, east and north....
.

See also

  • Jewish exodus from Arab lands
    Jewish exodus from Arab lands

    The Jewish exodus from Arab lands refers to the 20th century expulsion or mass departure of Jews, primarily of Sephardi Jews and Mizrahi Jews background, from Arab and Islamic countries....