Beer Sheba
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Beer Sheba is a city on the northern edge of the Negev region in Israel. It is the home of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
City | |
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 Coat of arms | |
| Coordinates: Coordinates: 31°14′N 34°47′E / 31.233°N 34.783°E | |
| Country |  |
| District | South (Mehoz Ha’Darom) |
| Settled | about 4,000 B.C.E. |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Rubik Danilovich |
| Area | |
| • City | 117.5 km2 (45.4 sq mi) |
| Population (2009)[1] | |
| • City | 187,900 |
| • Metro | 592,800 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (Israel Standard Time (IST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (Israel Summer Time (IDT)) |
| Website | beer-sheva.muni.il (in Hebrew) |
Notable sites
- The Abrahams Well International Visitors Center archaeological museum.
- Israeli Air Force Museum, at the nearby Hatzerim air force base.
Beer Sheba Media
Tel Sheva archaeological site
The market in Be'er Sheva
View of Beersheba from the south in 1902.
General view of Beersheba, 1917
AN AERIAL VIEW OF BE'ER SHEVA. צילום אויר של באר שבע.
Beersheba 1945 1:250,000
Beersheba 1947 1:20,000
Beersheba was proposed to be in the Arab State in final version of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine
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References
- ↑ "CBS 2009 estimate" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-21. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
Other websites
Media related to Beersheba at Wikimedia Commons
