Pri Gan ( he, פְּרִי גַּן, , Fruit Garden), also known as Prigan, is a

moshav A moshav ( he, מוֹשָׁב, plural ', lit. ''settlement, village'') is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 an ...

in southern

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. Located in the

Hevel Shalom Hevel Shalom (, lit. ''Shalom region'') is an area in the western Negev desert close to Israel's border with the Gaza Strip and Egypt's Sinai. This area was elected to be substitutive area for evacuees from Yamit. Villages Villages in Hevel Shalo ...

area of the north-western

Negev The Negev or Negeb (; he, הַנֶּגֶב, hanNegév; ar, ٱلنَّقَب, an-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 southe ...

desert, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

The moshav was founded in 1981 by former residents of Priel, an

Israeli settlement Israeli settlements, or Israeli colonies, are civilian communities inhabited by Israeli citizens, overwhelmingly of Jewish ethnicity, built on lands occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. The international community considers Israeli se ...

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which was evacuated as part of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. Its main produce is vegetables and flowers. Pri Gan was targeted during

2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel On 7 October 2023, the paramilitary wings of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, and the DFLP launched a series of coordinated armed incursions into the Gaza envelope of neighboring Israeli territory, the first invasion of Israel s ...

. Eleven members of the security team from nearby

Shlomit Shlomit ( he, שלומית) is a village in southern Israel. Located in the Negev desert, around 700 meters from the Egyptian border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council Eshkol Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית ...

came to defend the moshav, four of whom were killed during fighting. However, no residents were killed.

References

External links

Peri Gan
Negev Information Center {{Eshkol Regional Council Moshavim Populated places established in 1981 Gaza envelope Populated places in Southern District (Israel) 1981 establishments in Israel