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Beersheba, also spelled Beer-Sheva (/bɪərˈʃiːbə/; Hebrew: בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע Be'er Sheva [be.eʁˈʃeva]; Arabic: بئر السبع Bi'ir as-Sab [biːr esˈsabeʕ]), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the center of the fourth most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth most populous Israeli city with a population of 205,810, and the second largest city with a total area of 117,500 dunams (after Jerusalem).
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1. Hatzerim Israel Airforce Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 158 reviews
Reviewed By rockNrobin84 - Beersheva, Israel
A well done living museum. Yes, some of the plays actually fly! If you are lucky, you might be there when they are taking one of the two old planes up for routine flight. If not, there are a lot of planes to see, movies to watch and a good museum.
2. Carasso Science Park
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 81 reviews
Reviewed By VisitIsrael - Israel
This fairly new museum is located underground which has self explanatory exhibits in both Hebrew and English but also a human guide in each room to explain what the various exhibits are about (available in more than Hebrew). There are also exhibits/activities outdoors and on holidays/ vacations special lectures/workshops geared to kids.
3. Lunada Children's Museum
Overall Ratings
5 based on 67 reviews
Lunada is an experiential museum, the first of its kind in Israel. Innovative, interactive and fun for the whole family, encouraging activity and learning for all ages at an international level. The museum is housed in a 4,000 sq.m, 3-story facility that includes eight knowledge spaces with over 50 exhibits and installations in addition to unique outdoor areas. Each area features a different aspect of the world we live in and allows children to experience the various layers of reality and to discover themselves and their place in personal life, family life, public and social lives, as individuals and as part of a group. Through play in the museum’s unique areas, children are exposed to significant parts of their own world and practice important aspects of daily life such as time management, money and food, experiencing situations of interpersonal communication, meeting the world of culture and art, the solar system and unique features of planet Earth
Reviewed By rotem6 - Omer, Israel
This is a wonderful museum fir young kids 4+. But go during the school year not in summer vacation when its super over crowded
4. ANZAC Memorial Center
Overall Ratings
5 based on 34 reviews
The ANZAC Memorial Center in Be’er Sheva was built in cooperation with the governments of Australia and Israel, the Be’er Sheva municipality, the JNF, JNF Australia and the CWGC. The Center is located near the cemetery for combatants of the First World War in Be’er Sheva. The ANZAC Memorial Center is a unique place in Israel that tells the story of the soldiers of the ANZAC and their conquest in the land of Israel.
Reviewed By eilonglen - Ashkelon, Israel
Having recently visited the Great War military cemetery in Be'er Sheva while on a local tour, we were regaled enthusiastically about the adjacent museum facility, so decided on a follow-up exploration by ourselves at the earliest opportunity. We were not disappointed, as the ANZAC memorial...MoreThank You for your in depth review. It is an inspiration for all of us here to receive such a positive review.
5. Monument to the Negev Brigade
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4.5 based on 63 reviews
Reviewed By Aaron H - Beersheba, Israel
Excellent 1960s era architecture, all concrete (like much of Beersheva), but somehow more akin to the monument's natural surroundings than the oppressive square boxes that it shares its time period (and much of the adjacent city) with.
Come certainly in the evening to watch the sunset or to explore some of the surrounding paths during the cooler months, but if you arrive on a windy day the tower part of the monument sometimes will catch the wind when it is in a certain direction, producing sound that seems intentional to its design.
Perhaps with some imagination you can pretend you are hearing the disembodied echo of some once cutting-edge art installation half a century away.
6. Tel Be'er Sheva National Park
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 40 reviews
Reviewed By eilonglen - Ashkelon, Israel
Having lived in, and toured Israel widely for the last forty years since our immigration, I really believed that I had seen it all, but this organized historical tour-club visit was an eye-opener!
The site I remember back in the 'eighties was a rubble-strewn archaeological tel-mound that took one all of fifteen minutes to imagine its origins, before climbing back on the bus. Not so, forty active years later, though, as Tel Sheva is way up the list of acknowledged UNESCO Heritage sites in Israel, ranking with Megiddo and Masada for sheer magnificence of concept and renewal of ancient Israelite habitats.
Much time, effort and expense has been channeled into transforming this neglected site into the pearl it now is, depicting an important strategic desert facility that straddled the trade-routes across the country from the Gaza coast-line to Damascus in the East, while providing a vital source of water in this historically-parched region. The fortified city is fairly dramatic on its own, being well-designed as a regional administration and tax-collection center, but the highlight is undoubtedly the "advanced technology" that was utilized in the efforts to reveal and exploit the subterranean sources of water only available from the adjacent seasonal water-courses or 'wadis' surrounding the tel. Since the city was built on the hill-top and the water was a considerable depth below, it was necessary to dig down, physically, from the center of the city, until the underground water level was reached... a depth of about thirty meters - no mean feat two thousand years ago! This impressively-proportioned, conical pit was then lined with mortared rock and accessed by a narrow staircase adhering to its walls. Descending into the depths of the tel, the pit narrowed into a rock-hewn tunnel leading to the vast storage cisterns below, which would fill with water during the short rainy season.
A truly wondrous feat of ancient engineering that needs to be seen to be believed!
Tel Sheva is undoubtedly worthy of its UNESCO Heritage site provenance...
7. Engine 70414
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 48 reviews
8. Negev Museum of Art
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4.5 based on 38 reviews
Reviewed By Lev D - Southern District, Israel
The Negev Museum of Art is located in the Old City of Beer Sheva, in a charming historic building that was used in the past as home to the Turkish governor, during the Ottoman reign in Israel.
The structure was built in 1906 next to the grand mosque and other governmental buildings.
During the British mandate the building was used as home to the appointed district officer, and later as a girls' school. After the declaration of Independence, the building served as the city's municipality building, and was later transformed into The Negev Museum of Art, as part of the Archeology Museum compound. In 2004, an extensive renovation was completed, which included the addition of an elevator and modification of the inner spaces to modern museum presentation standards, and it is now declared as a preserved historic building. The museum contains three galleries displaying temporary Exhibitions, and a vast entrance yard. Visitors can enjoy temporary Exhibitions and live Concerts during the summer. (Taken from the Museum site)
9. Tel Arad National Park
Overall Ratings
4 based on 41 reviews
Tel Arad is one of Israel’s most important archaeological sites. A fortified Canaanite city and fortresses from the time of the kings of Judah have been unearthed at the site. The remains of a unique Judean temple and an extraordinary water plant from the times of the Judean kings were discovered in the fortresses. The national park offers campgrounds, a cafeteria and the opportunity to hold events there. A tour of Tel Arad takes between one to two hours.
Reviewed By airport2015 - Jerusalem, Israel
About ten kilometers north of the new town of Arad on theeastern road.Abiblical town excavated by the archeologist Ruth Amiran from the Hebrew University,Great place famous for big number of clay letters in old Hebrew studied by computer dictionary with results of very high literacy level as11 century BC.
vISIT ALSO THE iSRAELITE SANCTUARU AND Citadel
10. Zin River
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4.5 based on 23 reviews
Reviewed By Steve J - Silver Spring, Maryland
Our third trip to the Negev, and first to Zin. Spectacular vistas. Steep inclines and uneven paths. Make sure you have water and heavy duty hiking boots. Distances are impossible to gage. Views are unbelievable. Remember, when you climb down, you've got to climb back up. The history, and what you see are worth it.
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