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Holy & historic sites in Negev

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• Avdat ★
  Avdat is the hilltop ruin of a Nabatean town that served caravans carrying incense and spices across the Negev. Columns, cisterns, burial ca
• Site of Nova music festival massacre ★
  The site of the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re'im is where hundreds of young people were murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 202
• Site of the beginning of October 7 massacre ★
  This site near Kibbutz Re'im in the western Negev is linked to the start of the October 7, 2023 massacre, the darkest day in Israel's recent
• Site of the beginning of Iron Sword War ★
  This site near Kibbutz Re'im marks where the attacks of October 7, 2023, and the Iron Swords war began, including the Nova festival grounds.
• Starting point of the 1948 Palestine war ★
  A marker near Holit in the western Negev noting a point connected with the opening of the 1948 War of Independence. It is a short stop for t
• Shivta Ruins ★
  Shivta is one of the best preserved ancient towns in the Negev, built by the Nabateans and expanded in later centuries. Its streets, houses
• Tel Be'er Sheva ★
  Tel Be'er Sheva holds the remains of a planned Israelite city from the time of the kings, near the place associated with Avraham's well. Vis
• Mamshit ★
  Mamshit is the best-preserved Nabatean town in the Negev, a stop on the ancient Incense Route. Its stone houses, streets and later Byzantine
• Tel Arad ★
  Tel Arad holds two sites in one: a large Canaanite city in the lower part and an Israelite fortress from the period of the Kingdom of Judah
• Battle of Beersheba ★
  This marker in Be'er Sheva recalls the battle of October 1917, when British forces, including the famous charge of the Australian Light Hors
• Starting point of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war ★
  This marker near Holit in the western Negev recalls the opening of the War of Independence in this region. The Negev kibbutzim held out agai
• Haluza ★
  Haluza is the ruin of a large Nabatean city in the western Negev sands, a station on the ancient Incense Route that grew further in the Roma
• Tel Sharuhen ★
  Tel Sharuhen in the western Negev near Kibbutz Ein HaBsor is an ancient mound identified with the biblical city Sharuhen, listed among the t
• Hanegev Brigade memorial ★
  The Negev Brigade Memorial is a large concrete sculpture on a hill above Be'er Sheva, created by Dani Karavan to honor the Palmach's Negev B
• Oslo children memorial ★
  This square in Be'er Sheva commemorates the Jewish children from North Africa who died in the 1949 Hurum air disaster in Norway, on their wa
• Ben Gurion's Desert Home ★
  Ben-Gurion's Desert Home is the modest wooden hut at Kibbutz Sde Boker where Israel's first prime minister lived in his later years. It is k
• Jattir ★
  Horvat Yatir preserves the ruins of ancient Yatir in the southern Hebron Hills, near the Patrol Road. Yatir was a Levite city in the territo
• Tel Haror ★
  Tel Haror is an ancient mound by Nahal Gerar in the western Negev, which many scholars identify with biblical Gerar. In Bereishit, both Avra
• Maon Synagogue ★
  The ancient synagogue of Ma'on near Kibbutz Nirim belonged to a Jewish community of the Byzantine period. Its mosaic floor, decorated with a
• Tel Ira ★
  Tel Ira is the mound of a fortified town of the Kingdom of Judah in the northern Negev, set on a high hill east of Be'er Sheva. Excavations
• Battle of Hareira and Sheria ★
  This marker near Moshav Tidhar recalls the battle of Hareira and Sheria in November 1917, part of the British campaign that broke the Ottoma
• Tel Gamma ★
  Tel Gamma is an ancient mound on the Besor stream near Kibbutz Re'im in the western Negev, with remains from the Bronze Age through the Pers
• Hurvat Anim ★
  Horvat Anim preserves the remains of an ancient Jewish village in the southern Hebron Hills, including a synagogue from the Talmudic period.
• Turkish Soldiers Monument in Beersheba ★
  The Turkish Soldiers Monument in Be'er Sheva commemorates Ottoman soldiers who fell in the battles of World War I in the region. It is a sma
• Tell Halif ★
  Tel Halif is an ancient mound near Kibbutz Lahav, at the meeting point of the Shfela, the Judean Hills and the northern Negev. Excavations h
• Beit Eshel
  Mitzpe Beit Eshel near Be'er Sheva is one of three lookout settlements founded in the Negev in 1943. It held out under siege in the War of I
• Nova Festival Victims Memorial
  The memorial site near Re'im for those murdered at the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023. Families and visitors come to remember the vi
• Mezad Mahmal
  Metzad Machmal is the ruin of a small Nabatean fort on the northern cliff of Makhtesh Ramon, at the top of the Machmal ascent. It guarded th
• ANZAC Memorial
  The ANZAC Memorial near Kibbutz Be'eri honors the soldiers of Australia and New Zealand who fell in the Land of Israel during the First Worl
• Tiger temple
  The Leopard Temple near Shaharut is a reconstructed prehistoric site in the southern Negev, where stones set into the ground form 12 leopard
• Horbat `Uza
  The remains of a fortress from the days of the Kingdom of Yehuda in the eastern Negev, overlooking the Kina stream near Arad. Hebrew inscrip
• Tel Malhata
  An archaeological site near Abu Quraynat in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Tel Shoqet
  An archaeological site near Hura in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Patish Fortress
  Ancient ruins near Ofakim in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Beeri IDF Temporary Military Cemetery Monument
  A memorial near Beeri in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Mezad Saharonim
  Ancient ruins near Mitspe Ramon in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Tel esh-Sharia
  An archaeological site near Teashur in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• British Railway Bridge
  Ancient ruins near Ofakim in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Horvat Qitmit
  An archaeological site near Abu Quraynat in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Mezad Tamar
  Ancient ruins in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Negev Guardian sculpture
  A spot near Beersheba in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Nekarot bastion
  An archaeological site in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Rehoboth
  An archaeological site in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Ugdat HaPlada
  A monument near Yated in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Yiftach Brigade Memorial
  A memorial near Beit Kama in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Be'er Shama
  An archaeological site near Urim in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Hirbet Salit
  Ancient ruins near Meitar in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Yad LaBanim Memorial
  A memorial near Beersheba in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Eliyahu Haltzi Central Synagaugue
  A spot near Beersheba in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Tomb of the Baba Sali
  A traditional burial site near Netivot in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• איתי אייל ושני שחם
  A memorial in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Horbat Rahba
  Ancient ruins near Dimona in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Horbat Za`aq
  Ancient ruins near Shomriya in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• yeshivat tushia tifrach
  A spot near Tifrah in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Horvat Haro'e
  An archaeological site near Merhav Am in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• מצד גרפון
  An archaeological site in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• צור מעון
  Ancient ruins near Nir Oz in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Mezad Sorer
  An archaeological site near Dimona in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Hurvat Abu Haf
  Ancient ruins near Lehavim in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Remalia water holes
  An archaeological site near Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Remalia water holes
  An archaeological site near Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Nahal Avnon Fortress
  Ancient ruins near Yerucham in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Ben-Gurion's Tomb
  A memorial near Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
  A spot near Beersheba in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Tel Qeriyyot
  Ancient ruins near Har Amasa in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Petroleum Explorers Camp
  Ancient ruins near Yerucham in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Hurvat Sansana
  Ancient ruins near Karmit in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Nawamis
  An archaeological site in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Hurvat Rimon
  An archaeological site near Lahav in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• פסל הבולבוסים
  A spot near Arad in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• גבעת אוגר
  An archaeological site near Karmit in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• מזנר ביזנטי
  An archaeological site near Givot Bar in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• בור קצינים
  An archaeological site near Mitspe Ramon in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Monument to the Fallen
  A monument near Netiv HaAsara in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Horbat Aroer
  An archaeological site near Abu Quraynat in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Store caves
  Ancient ruins near Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Store caves
  Ancient ruins near Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Horbat Bet HaGaddi
  Ancient ruins near Beit HaGaddi in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Horbat Zahal
  Ancient ruins near Mashabei Sadeh in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Sumsum
  Ancient ruins near Or HaNer in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Harabat Abu Sitta
  Ancient ruins near Nirim in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Har Arkov
  An archaeological site near Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Horbat Bor
  Ancient ruins near Dimona in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Khirbat al-Adar
  Ancient ruins near Beeri in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Tel Mifsah
  An archaeological site near Nir Aqiva in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Horbat Mador
  Ancient ruins near Reim in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Bureir
  Ancient ruins near Beror Hayil in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Khirbat al-Kutshan
  Ancient ruins near Reim in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Horbat Bohu
  Ancient ruins near Netivot in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Horbot Gerarit
  Ancient ruins near Reim in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Sheizaf
  Ancient ruins near Kmehin in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Tel Shihan
  An archaeological site near Shuva in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Mezad Mohila
  Ancient ruins near Mitspe Ramon in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Khirbat Abu `Amud
  Ancient ruins near Shomriya in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Mezad Mishhor
  An archaeological site near Mitspe Ramon in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Deir Suneid
  Ancient ruins near Netiv HaAsara in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Tel Beror
  An archaeological site near Beror Hayil in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Rosh Nizzana
  Ancient ruins near Nitsana in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Hurvat Tala
  Ancient ruins near Lahav in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Yeroham Stronghold
  An archaeological site near Yerucham in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Tel Hemar
  Ancient ruins near Beeri in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Khirbat al Mashrafa
  Ancient ruins near Beeri in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Hurvat Soa
  Ancient ruins near Hura in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Railway Bridge
  Ancient ruins near Kmehin in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Mizpe Shivta
  Ancient ruins near Ashalim in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• The lost city
  Ancient ruins near Sde Boker in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Hurvat Sharav
  Ancient ruins in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Cistern and Dam
  An archaeological site near Beersheba in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Radum ruins
  An archaeological site near Kabua in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• cistern
  An archaeological site near Beersheba in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• The paleolithic temple
  An archaeological site in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Gat
  An archaeological site near Shima in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• tumulus
  An archaeological site in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Stables
  Ancient ruins near Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Byzantine quarter
  Ancient ruins near Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Vaulted room
  Ancient ruins near Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Roman tower
  Ancient ruins near Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Pottery workshop
  Ancient ruins near Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Winepress
  Ancient ruins near Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Bathhouse
  Ancient ruins near Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Ancient Farmstead
  An archaeological site near Nitsana in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Dovecote tower
  Ancient ruins near Ashalim in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• ancient farm
  Ancient ruins in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Rug'um Zohar
  An archaeological site near Arad in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Havat Habor
  An archaeological site near Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Tel Ein HaBsor
  An archaeological site near Urim in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Gat
  An archaeological site near Sansana in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Nahal Horsha North Desert Kite
  An archaeological site in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Achshuv Desert Kite
  An archaeological site in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Pitam Desert Kite
  An archaeological site near Mitspe Ramon in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Tel Mefalsim
  An archaeological site near Kfar Azza in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Hurvat Hiran
  Ancient ruins near Meitar in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Horbat Mashqef
  Ancient ruins near Beeri in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Horbat Ritma
  Ancient ruins near Sde Boker in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Well
  An archaeological site near Reim in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Tel ‘Irit
  An archaeological site near Mefallesim in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Mezad Yorqe‘am
  Ancient ruins near Yerucham in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• The Israelite Temple
  An archaeological site near Arad in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• The Fortresses Mound
  An archaeological site near Arad in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• The Aradian House
  An archaeological site near Arad in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• British Bunkers
  Ancient ruins near Beeri in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Farmhouse
  Ancient ruins near Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Roman Army camp
  Ancient ruins near Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• K line
  An archaeological site in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Tumulus
  An archaeological site in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Metzad Zin
  Ancient ruins near Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• Be'er Resisim Site
  An archaeological site near Ezuz in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.
• חורבת חשיף
  An archaeological site near Ofakim in the Negev area, a piece of the land's history.