What is "dekel"

Dekel (, lit. Palm tree), officially Dekel-Kfar Shitufi (, lit. Dekel - Co-operative Village) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Hevel Shalom area of the north-western Negev desert near the Egypt- Gaza Strip-Israel border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In it had a population of .