•Moshav account for 3.1% of the national population in 2003.
•The moshavis a planned smallholders’ cooperative settlement, first established in the early 1920s.
•There are around 440 moshavimspread out throughout the country, comprising about 43% of all rural settlements in Israel.
•The average moshavcontains between 60 and 120 family holdings.
•The amount of land allocated to each farm unit (moshav) differs according to the region and the dominant farm enterprise, varying between 3 and 15 hectares, but is equitable within members in each moshav.(Sofer& Applebaum, 2006)