Nir Akiva

Nir Akiva
Nir Akiva ; ניר עקיבא; نير عكيفا
	Village synagogue
	Nir Akiva
	Coordinates: 31°28′12″N 34°38′48″E / 31.47000°N 34.64667°E
Country	Israel
District	Southern
Council	Merhavim
Affiliation	Moshavim Movement
Founded	1953
Population (2019)	686

Nir Akiva (Hebrew: נִיר עֲקִיבָא‎, lit. Akiva's Meadow) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the north-western Negev near Netivot and Nir Moshe and covering 1,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merhavim Regional Council. In 2019 it had a population of 686.^[1]

History

The moshav was established in 1953 on land that had belonged to the Palestinian village of Kawfakha.^[2] It was named after Akiva Etinger, a chief of the Settlement Department in the Jewish Agency. In the late 1970s Amir Peretz was a member of the moshav.

References

^ ^a ^b "Population in the Localities 2019" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
^ Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. pp. 119–121. ISBN 0-88728-224-5. Population 1944/45 500

External links

Nir Akiva Negev Information Centre

[Israelpopulations-1] "Population in the Localities 2019" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 August 2020.

[2] Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. pp. 119–121. ISBN 0-88728-224-5. Population 1944/45 500

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