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Places

Ruins of a town of the Nabataeans and Byzantines in the western Negev, with three churches, streets and houses still standing. With Avdat, Haluza and Mamshit it forms the Incense Route desert cities, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005. Its farmers caught rare rainwater to grow crops in the desert.

Sources

  • Written for this site, revised and checked from the topic pages of the earlier Israel NOWlej site (2025).