Merhavim Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Merhavim'') is a regional council in the Southern District of

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 ...

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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 ...

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community settlement A community settlement (, ''Yishuv Kehilati'') is a type of town or village in Israel and in the West Bank. In an ordinary town, anyone may buy property, but in a community settlement, the village's residents are organized in a cooperative an ...

, a

youth village A youth village () is a boarding school model first developed in Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s to care for groups of children and teenagers fleeing the Nazis. Henrietta Szold and Recha Freier were the pioneers in this sphere, known as youth ...

and an educational institution.

List of communities

Moshavim * Bitha * Eshbol * Gilat * Klahim * Maslul * Nir Akiva * Nir Moshe * Pa'amei Tashaz * Patish * Peduim * Ranen * Sde Tzvi * Talmei Bilu * Tifrah Community settlement * Mabu'im * Shavei Darom Youth village * Eshel HaNasi Other village (educational institution) * Adi Negev {{Coord, 31.450, N, 34.700, E, display=title, source:cawiki Regional councils in Israel 1951 establishments in Israel