Pri Gan

Pri Gan פְּרִי גַּן
Pri Gan
Coordinates: 31°13′15.95″N 34°21′16.2″E / 31.2210972°N 34.354500°E / 31.2210972; 34.354500Coordinates: 31°13′15.95″N 34°21′16.2″E / 31.2210972°N 34.354500°E / 31.2210972; 34.354500
Council	Eshkol
Region	North-western Negev
Affiliation	HaOved HaTzioni
Founded	1981
Founded by	Evacuated settlers

Pri Gan (Hebrew: פְּרִי גַּן, lit. Fruit Garden), also known as Prigan, is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Hevel Shalom area of the north-western Negev desert, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 123.

The moshav was founded in 1981 by former residents of Priel, an Israeli settlement in Sinai which was evacuated as part of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. Its main produce is vegetables and flowers.

External links

Peri Gan Negev Information Center

Eshkol Regional Council

Kibbutzim	Be'eri Ein HaShlosha Gvulot Magen Nir Oz Nir Yitzhak Nirim Holit Kerem Shalom Kissufim Re'im Sufa Tze'elim Urim

Moshavim	Ami'oz Bnei Netzarim Ein HaBesor Dekel Mivtahim Ohad Pri Gan Sde Nitzan Sdei Avraham Talmei Eliyahu Talmei Yosef Yated Yesha Yevul

Other villages	Avshalom Shlomit Tzohar

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