Talmei Yosef ( he, תלמי יוסף, lit. ''Yosef Furrows'') was an
Israeli settlement
Israeli settlements, or Israeli colonies, are civilian communities inhabited by Israeli citizens, overwhelmingly of Jewish ethnicity, built on lands occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. The international community considers Israeli se ...
and
moshav
A moshav ( he, מוֹשָׁב, plural ', lit. ''settlement, village'') is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 an ...
in the
Sinai Peninsula. Located near
Yamit, it was evacuated in 1982 as a result of the
Camp David Accords
The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the country retrea ...
.
The moshav was established in 1977 by a
gar'in
Gar'in (, ''lit.'' kernel) is a Hebrew term used for groups of people who moved together to Ottoman Palestine, British Palestine, and since 1948, Israel.Joel Beinin The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry- 2005 9774248902 "arrived in Israel while the mi ...
group of
immigrants from
South Africa and the
United States. It was named after
Yosef Weitz, a former director of the Land and Afforestation Department of the
Jewish National Fund
Jewish National Fund ( he, קֶרֶן קַיֶּימֶת לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, ''Keren Kayemet LeYisrael'', previously , ''Ha Fund HaLeumi'') was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Syria (later Mandatory Palestine, and subseq ...
.
When the settlement was evacuated, its residents founded a
new moshav by the same name in the
Hevel Shalom
Hevel Shalom (, lit. ''Shalom region'') 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.
Villages
Villages in Hevel Shalo ...
area in Israel, close to the
Egypt–Gaza border
The Egypt–Gaza border is the long border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. There is a buffer zone along the border, called the Philadelphi Route, which is about long.
The Rafah Border Crossing is the only crossing point between Egypt and t ...
.
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Former Israeli settlements in Sinai
Former moshavim
Populated places established in 1977
1977 establishments in the Israeli Military Governorate
1982 disestablishments in the Israeli Military Governorate