Sdei Avraham

Sdei Avraham
שְׂדֵי אַבְרָהָם
Sdei Avraham
Coordinates: 31°12′45.72″N 34°20′10.68″E / 31.2127000°N 34.3363000°E / 31.2127000; 34.3363000Coordinates: 31°12′45.72″N 34°20′10.68″E / 31.2127000°N 34.3363000°E / 31.2127000; 34.3363000
District Southern
Council Eshkol
Affiliation Moshavim Movement
Founded 1981
Population (2015)[1] 341

Sdei Avraham (Hebrew: שְׂדֵי אַבְרָהָם, lit. Avraham Fields) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Hevel Shalom area of the north-western Negev desert near the Gaza Strip border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 341.

History

The moshav was founded in 1981 by evacuees from Sinai and was initially named Yesodot HaDarom (Hebrew: יְסוֹדוֹת הַדָּרוֹם, lit. Foundations of the South), but was later renamed after Avraham Herzfeld, a leader of Mapai.[2]

References

  1. "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  2. Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Yuval Elʻazari (ed.). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. 2005. p. 526. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.
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