Tkuma ( he, תְּקוּמָה, ''lit.'' Resurrection) is a religious

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 ...

in southern

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. Located north-west of Netivot, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Sdot Negev Regional Council Sdot Negev Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית שדות נגב, ''Mo'atza Azorit Sdot Negev'', ''lit.'' Negev Fields Regional Council), formerly Azata Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית עזתה, ''Mo'atza Azorit Azata'') ...

. In it had a population of .

History

Tkuma was established as a

kibbutz A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...

on the night of 5 and 6 October 1946 as one of the

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at a location around a mile from the present site. The first residents were Jewish immigrants from

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, who survived the

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, and the village's name reflects the resurrection of Israel. In 1949 the village moved to its present location near the site of the depopulated

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village of al-Muharraqa. Scholar Benny Morris documents that Tkuma is near the al-Muharraqa site, but writer Walid Khalidi says that Tkuma, although only 2 km west of the al-Muharraqa site, is on land which once belonged to the city of Gaza. In the 1950s the moshav was joined by more immigrants from Eastern Europe and

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. Located 5 kilometers from Gaza, the moshav has suffered damage from rockets launched by

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militants during 2000s and 2010s. The moshav is serviced by the Color Red alert system.

Economy

Since the 1990s, fish-farming has been an important economic branch. The sale of fresh fish to banquet halls and restaurants in the northern Negev has provided income for seven families.

References

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