Establishments in Ottoman Syria

thumb|Gedera, before 1899 thumb|Yokneam Moshava|Yokneam (moshava) thumb|Yavne'el (moshava) A moshava (, plural: moshavot , colony) was a form of agricultural Jewish settlement in the region of Palestine (now Israel), established by the members of the Old Yishuv beginning in the late 1870s and during the first two waves of Jewish Zionist immigration – the First and Second Aliyah.