Nir Akiva

Nir Akiva
Village synagogue
Nir Akiva
Coordinates: 31°28′11.63″N 34°38′48.12″E / 31.4698972°N 34.6467000°E / 31.4698972; 34.6467000Coordinates: 31°28′11.63″N 34°38′48.12″E / 31.4698972°N 34.6467000°E / 31.4698972; 34.6467000
District	Southern
Council	Merhavim
Affiliation	Moshavim Movement
Founded	1953
Population (2015)	702

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 2015 it had a population of 702.

The moshav was established in 1953 on land that had belonged to the Arab village of Kawfakha. 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.