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Negev
The Negev Tour
CONTACT USWorking with us at Travel & Events in Israel to plan your tour of the country means you get superior service, highly organized plans, and a specialized itinerary filled with places, activities, and events that are customized to you, and we work with clients. If you’re interested in the desert region of Israel, we offer a Negev tour, where you can visit prominent cities like Beersheba and Eilat. Beersheba is the administrative capital of the region and the largest city, with a population of almost 206,000. Eilat is a resort city with attractions like beautiful gardens, the Dolphin Reef where you can swim with dolphins, and the desert park of Timna Valley. You and your loved ones can also visit kibbutzim, communal settlements that often function as farms, such as Revivim and Sde Boker, where you can learn about agriculture and visit wineries.
The word ‘negev’ originates from the Hebrew root denoting ‘dry,’ but just because this area is a desert, doesn’t mean it has nothing to offer. Other popular attractions of the Negev desert region include Abraham’s Well and Tel Beer Sheva.
Negev
The region's largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba (pop. 205,810), in the north. At its southern end is the Gulf of Aqaba and the resort city of Eilat. It contains several development towns, including Dimona, Arad and Mitzpe Ramon, as well as a number of small Bedouin cities, including Rahat and Tel as-Sabi and Lakyah. There are also several kibbutzim, including Revivim and Sde Boker; the latter became the home of Israel's first Prime Minister, Ben-Gurion, after his retirement from politics.
The origin of the word 'negev' is from the Hebrew root denoting 'dry'. In the Bible, the word Negev is also used for the direction 'south'; some English-language translations use the spelling "Negeb". In Arabic, the Negev is known as al-Naqab or an-Naqb ("the [mountain] pass"),though it was not thought of as a distinct region until the demarcation of the Egypt-Ottoman frontier in the 1890s and has no traditional Arabic name.
In Arabic, during the British Mandate it was called Beersheba sub-district.
