Dvir (), also known as Dvira (), is a

kibbutz A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania Alef, Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economi ...

in southern

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. Located near Rahat and

Beersheba Beersheba ( / ; ), officially Be'er-Sheva, is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the centre of the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth-most p ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of

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. In it had a population of .

History

The kibbutz was established in 1951 by Hashomer Hatzair members from

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and tookCarta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p. 136, its name from the

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city of Dvir (Joshua 21:15) that was located in the area. The original residents were joined by immigrants from

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. A member of the kibbutz, Yitzhak Mintz, developed the QText

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program in 1988 which was one of the first to handle the

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References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Kibbutzim Kibbutz Movement Populated places established in 1951 Populated places in Southern District (Israel) 1951 establishments in Israel Hungarian-Jewish culture in Israel