Ahva () is a village in the northern

Negev The Negev ( ; ) or 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 southern end is the Gulf of Aqaba and the resort town, resort city ...

desert of southern

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 ...

. It falls under the jurisdiction of

Be'er Tuvia Regional Council Be'er Tuvia Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Be'er Tovia''), is a regional council in the Southern District of Israel. It borders Yoav and Nahal Sorek regional councils in the east; Hof Ashkelon regional council, the Mediterranean Sea, t ...

and had a population of in . It is adjacent to the Ahva Academic College and acts as a service center for the surrounding settlements, including

Kfar Ahim Kfar Ahim () is a moshav in south-central Israel. Located near Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav was founded in 1949 by Jewish immigrants from Pol ...

Kfar HaRif Kfar HaRif (, lit. ''Village of the Rif'') is a moshav in southern Israel. Located on the border of the Shephelah and the Israeli coastal plain around 2 kilometres northeast of Kiryat Malakhi, it is the largest community under the jurisdiction o ...

, Talmei Yehiel and Yenon.

History

The village was established in 1976 for civil servants of the regional council on land that had belonged to the depopulated

Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...

village of

Al-Masmiyya al-Kabira Al-Masmiyya al-Kabira () was a Palestinian village in the Gaza Subdistrict, located northeast of Gaza. With a land area of 20,687 dunams, the village site (135 dunams) was situated on an elevation of along the coastal plain. It was depopulat ...

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