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turn of the century — for Beer-
sheba is, in some ways, still the
st outpost before Israel's vast
desert region begins. The Beer-
sheba Museum is in the old town:
Once a mosque, it has an excel-
lent archaeological collection and
desert-related exhibits. "Abra-
ham's Well" is here,too — tradi-
tional site of the pact sworn by
Abraham and Abimelech, a local
noble, although archaeologists
now believe that Abraham's set-
$lement was most likely at Tel
Beersheba.
The new city of Beersheba is
dynamic and bustling, with vast
central shopping mall and pedes-
trianized precinct. There is a bevy
of excellent restaurants in Beer-
sheba, recalling the gastronom-
ic richness brought by
immigrants from more than 70
countries. Every Thursday morn-
ing, on the city's southern out-
skirts, the Bedouin market is still
a huge and colorful attraction for
visitors — complete with camels,
sheep and goats — where local
Bedouin trade all manner of pro-
duce, livestock, tools — as well as
attractive arts and crafts.
Undoubtedly one of the most
important contributions to Beer-
sheba's growing prominence is the
city's much and justly vaunted
Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev, an institution which has
literally placed this desert city on
the world's intellectual map.
Founded in 1969 and named in
honor of David Ben-Gurion, Is-
rael's first prime minister, who
feverishly believed Israel's destiny
was to "make the desert bloom."
Beersheba is the jumping-off
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desert. Not far south is Sde Bo-
ger, the desert kibbutz to which
David Ben-Gurion moved and
where he is buried, with its fas-
cinating field school and the near-
by Nabatean city of Avdat, as
well as the icy Avdat Canyon. A
half hour further south is Mitzpe
Ramon, a bustling desert town
from which travelers can take a
wide variety of desert excursions,
and the vast, meteorite-fashioned
Ramon Crater, whose red-hued
crags and mighty cliffs form what
is surely one of Israel's most mag-
nificent natural wonders.
To the west of Beersheba, Haz-
erim Air Base is home to Israel's
Air Force Museum. And to Beer-
sheba's east is Arad, a city which,
Th because of its height above sea-
level and ultra-dry air, has be-
come a center for respiratory
cures, and the scenic, winding de-
scent to the Dead Sea, the lowest
point on earth.
And perhaps nothing is more
emblematic of Beersheba's new-
found prominence than the new
Beer Sheva Hilton Hotel.
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