Sharsheret ( he, שַׁרְשֶׁרֶת, ''lit.'' Chain) is a religious
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
Israel. Located near
Netivot and covering 6,000
dunam
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...
s, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Sdot Negev Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The village was established in 1951 with the help of the
Jewish Agency for Israel by
Bnei Akiva members who were
immigrants from
Tunisia . Its name is a combination of two words, ''Sar'' (lit. ''Minister'', written with a
Shin
Shin may refer to:
Biology
* The front part of the human leg below the knee
* Shinbone, the tibia, the larger of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates
Names
* Shin (given name) (Katakana: シン, Hiragana: しん), a Japanese ...
, and therefore also pronounceable as "Shar") and ''Sharett'' (referring to
Moshe Sharett, who was
Foreign Minister
A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister for foreign affairs) is generally a cabinet minister in charge of a state's foreign policy and relations. The formal title of the top official varies between cou ...
at the time the moshav was founded).
שרשרת
Or Movement
References
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Moshavim
Religious Israeli communities
Populated places established in 1951
1951 establishments in Israel
Populated places in Southern District (Israel)
Tunisian-Jewish culture in Israel