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July 2021

Tastes and Sounds of Yeroham Multi-Cultural Mecca in the Negev Desert

Tuesday, July 6, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Tuesday, repeating until Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Zoom San Diego, CA United States
Free

Join us for a special 3-part summer virtual visit with some of the amazing communities and personalities of the Negev desert town of Yeroham. Modern Yeroham was founded on 9 January 1951 as Ma'aberet Tel Yeroham (Hebrew: מעברת תל יְרֻחָם), a transit camp for new immigrants, and became one of Israel's first development towns, created to settle frontier areas in the early days of the state. It was located near the Yeroham Makhtesh (formerly: Large Makhtesh), an area that supplied natural…

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