Gilat () is a

moshav A moshav (, plural ', "settlement, village") is a type of Israeli village or town or Jewish settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 and 1 ...

in southern

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

. Located in the western

Negev The Negev ( ; ) or Naqab (), is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region's largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba (pop. ), in the north. At its southern end is the Gulf of Aqaba and the resort town, resort city ...

desert between

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 ...

and

Ofakim Ofakim () is a city in the Southern District (Israel), Southern District of Israel, 20 kilometers (12.4 mi) west of Beersheba. It achieved municipal status in 1955. It has an area of 10,000 dunams (~3.9 sq mi; 10 km2). In , it had a populatio ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Merhavim Regional Council Merhavim Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Merhavim'') is a regional council in the Southern District of Israel. It covers 14 moshavim, a community settlement, a youth village A youth village () is a boarding school model first developed in ...

. In it had a population of .

History

The moshav was founded in 1949 by Jewish refugees from an Arab country,

Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

. Like the names of two other moshavim ( Tifrah,

Ranen Ranen () is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the north-western Negev desert, two kilometres north of Ofakim, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merhavim Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav was established in 1 ...

) in the area its name was takenCarta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p. 167, from the

Book of Isaiah The Book of Isaiah ( ) is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Major Prophets in the Christian Old Testament. It is identified by a superscription as the words of the 8th-century BC prophet Isaiah ben Amo ...

35:2:

(The desert,) it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing.

Notable people

Aharon Uzan Aharon Uzan (; 1 November 1924 – 23 January 2007) was an Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s. Biography Uzan was born in Moknine in Tunisia, and was a member of the right-wing Betar ...

(1924–2007), government minister * Pini Badash (born 1952), Knesset member

References

{{Authority control Moshavim Populated places established in 1949 Populated places in Southern District (Israel) Tunisian-Jewish culture in Israel 1949 establishments in Israel