Gadid was founded in 1982 as an Orthodoxmoshav, by a group of 22 families, mostly new immigrants from France as well as families from the Bnei AkivaMizrachi youth group. Most residents earned their living from hothouse crops such as leafy vegetables, tomatoes, flowers and herbs. A unique characterisitc of Gadid in Gush Katif was that each family had its agricultural land adjacent to the home. The village also had an absorption center (built in 1999) for new immigrants from France. A cottage industry for herbal remedies was one of the most prominent local initiatives and operated by the Barbei family. Orthodox Judaism is the stream of Judaism which adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmud (The Oral Law) and later codified in the Shulkhan Arukh (Code of Jewish Law). It is governed by these works and the Rabbinical commentary... Moshav (plural as mashavim)is a type of collective agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the labour Zionists during the second aliyah (wave of Jewish immigration during the 19th Century) The moshavs are similar to kibbutzim with an emphasis on community labour and were designed as part of the... Bnei Akivas emblem (semel) Bnei Akiva is the worlds largest youth movement of Religious Zionism. ... The Mizrachi (acronym for Merkaz Ruchani or religious centre) is the name of the religious Zionist organization founded in 1902 in Vilna at a world conference of religious Zionists called by Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines. ...
Gadid was founded in 1982 as an Orthodoxmoshav, by a group of 22 families, mostly new immigrants from France as well as families from the Bnei Akiva Mizrachi youth group.
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