Mashabei Sadeh () 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 in the

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, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ramat HaNegev Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

The kibbutz was established in 1947 in the Elusa dunes and was originally known as Mashabim (). During the

1948 Arab–Israeli War The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war becam ...

the kibbutz was attacked by the

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but was retained by Israel. After the war ended it relocated to its present site. It was renamed Mashabei Sadeh in honour of

Palmach The Palmach (Hebrew: , acronym for , ''Plugot Maḥatz'', "Strike Phalanges/Companies") was the elite combined strike forces and sayeret unit of the Haganah, the paramilitary organization of the Yishuv (Jewish community) during the period of th ...

leader

Yitzhak Sadeh Yitzhak Sadeh (; born Izaak Landoberg, August 10, 1890 – August 20, 1952), was the commander of the Palmach and one of the founders of the Israel Defense Forces at the time of the establishment of the State of Israel. Biography Sadeh was bo ...

, who died in 1952.Catch '74, Haaretz
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Economy

Apart from agriculture (field crops, poultry and dairy), the kibbutz breeds shrimp using special

aquaculture Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. Nelu ...

techniques. It is also the only kibbutz in Israel to breed the

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n fish Barramundi. It also operates a factory, Sagiv, that produces brass ball-valves and fittings, and runs a guesthouse.Mashabim holiday village
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References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Kibbutzim Kibbutz Movement Populated places established in 1947 1947 establishments in Mandatory Palestine Populated places in Southern District (Israel)