Sde Nitzan
| Sde Nitzan שְׂדֵה נִצָּן, שדה ניצן | |
|---|---|
  Sde Nitzan | |
| Coordinates: 31°13′45.47″N 34°25′12.35″E / 31.2292972°N 34.4200972°ECoordinates: 31°13′45.47″N 34°25′12.35″E / 31.2292972°N 34.4200972°E | |
| Council | Eshkol |
| Affiliation | Moshavim Movement |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Founded by | Immigrants from English speaking countries |
| Population (2005) | 250 |
| Name meaning | Field of Flowers |
Sde Nitzan (Hebrew: שְׂדֵה נִצָּן, lit. Field of Flowers) is a moshav located near Beersheba in the northern Negev desert in Israel. Located 12 km east of Kerem Shalom, in 2005 it had a population of about 250. The name is symbolic, and is an approximate translation of the name of a Jewish philanthropist named Bloomfield ("Field of Flowers"). The Moshav was promoted by Eddie Peretz and his wife Lil Peretz, an English couple from the UK who experimented the growing methods they used before aliya. They grew tomatoes at Moshav Yesha and after many struggles the Jewish Agency agreed to fund the infrastructure for a moshav with glass hot houses for growing and exporting tomatoes to the European market. Each family paid $10,000. for the pleasure of water breaks, electricity breaks, produce left outdoors in the heat at the airport, and a myriad of broken promises. The first 10 families worked in the first 10 glass houses starting in 1973. It was established in 1973 by Olim from English speaking countries.[1]
References
| ||||||||||||||