Negev

The Negev ( ; ) or Naqab () is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region's largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba (pop. ), in the north. At its southern end is the Gulf of Aqaba and the resort city and port of Eilat. It contains several development towns, including Dimona, Arad, and Mitzpe Ramon, as well as a number of small Bedouin towns, including Rahat, Tel Sheva, and Lakiya. There are also several kibbutzim, including Revivim and Sde Boker; the latter became the home of Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, after his retirement from politics.

species of mammal

itinerary

Wadi in southern Israel and Palestine

Ziklag () is the biblical name of a town in the Negev region in the southwest of what was the Kingdom of Judah. It was a provincial town in the Philistine kingdom of Gath when Achish was king. Its exact location has not been identified with any certainty.

museum in Israel

1948 Israeli military action in the Negev

Government ministry of Israel

mountain range in southern Israel

Arab-Israeli conference

Wadi in Israel

geographical object

pastoral nomadic Arab tribes (Bedouin)

art museum in Israel

Archaeological site in Israel

epipaleolithic culture in Negev, Israel

mountains in Israel

Midburn (Hebrew: מידברן; Arabic: ميدبيرن) is a 6-day event held in the Negev Desert in southern Israel.

annual Israeli festival

6th-century synagogue and archaeological site in the Negev Desert

Al-Araqeeb (; ) is an unrecognized village of the Al-Turi Arab Bedouin tribe, five miles (8 km) north of Beersheba, demolished and rebuilt over 200 times.

Desert irrigation by floodwater dam

The main river in Beersheba, Israel

small nature reserve in Israel

stream that flows from Hebron to the Negev

Place in southern Israel desert

wadi in southern Israel, in the Negev desert