Sdei Avraham

Place in Southern, Israel

Sdei Avraham 31°12′46″N 34°20′11″E / 31.21278°N 34.33639°E / 31.21278; 34.33639
Country	Israel
District	Southern
Council	Eshkol
Affiliation	Moshavim Movement
Founded	1981
Population (2022)^[1]	360

Sdei Avraham (Hebrew: שְׂדֵי אַבְרָהָם, lit. Avraham Fields) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Hevel Shalom area of the north-western Negev desert near the Gaza Strip border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 360.^[1]

History

The moshav was founded in 1981 and was initially named Yesodot HaDarom (Hebrew: יְסוֹדוֹת הַדָּרוֹם, lit. Foundations of the South), but was later renamed after Avraham Herzfeld, a leader of Mapai.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
^ Yuval Elʻazari, ed. (2005). Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. p. 526. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.