Sdei Avraham

Sdei Avraham שְׂדֵי אַבְרָהָם
Sdei Avraham
Coordinates: 31°12′45.72″N 34°20′10.68″E / 31.2127000°N 34.3363000°E / 31.2127000; 34.3363000Coordinates: 31°12′45.72″N 34°20′10.68″E / 31.2127000°N 34.3363000°E / 31.2127000; 34.3363000
Council	Eshkol
Region	North-western Negev
Affiliation	Moshavim Movement
Founded	1981

Sdei Avraham (Hebrew: שְׂדֵי אַבְרָהָם, lit. Avraham Fields) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Hevel Shalom area of the north-western Negev desert near the Gaza Strip border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 211.

The moshav was founded in 1982 by evacuees from Sinai and was initially named Yesodot HaDarom (Hebrew: יְסוֹדוֹת הַדָּרוֹם, lit. Foundations of the South), but was later renamed after Avraham Hirtzfeld, a leader of Mapai.^[1]

References

↑ Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Yuval Elʻazari (ed.). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. 2005. p. 526. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.

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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