ESRA Outing to the Western Negev

"MYSTICS and IDEALISTS"
(and a chance to enjoy the beautiful fields of anemones that should be blooming then)

• Nitzan - Story of Gush Katif starting with the history of the region, the establishment and ‎destruction of thriving communities, and the challenges of rebuilding. A personal encounter with ‎the human story behind historical events. All the guides are former residents of Gush Katif who ‎integrate their own personal, true-to-life stories. Coffee & Cake will be served
• Tom VeTomer Hill – An ecological biological garden planted in memory of Tom Kitain and ‎Tomer Keidar, from Kibbutz Negba, by Tomer’s father. They were killed in the helicopter crash, ‎together with 73 other soldiers, on February 4, 1997 over the Galilee while waiting to enter ‎Lebanon.                                    ‎
• Picnic lunch (bring your own)‎
• Netivot – Home & grave of Rabbi Israel Abuhatzeira, known as Baba Sali, a leading Moroccan ‎Sephardic rabbi and mystic credited with working miracles. This pleasant leafy town of ‎some 25,000 people in the semi-desert of the Northern Negev, has gained status as a major ‎pilgrimage site.‎
• Kibbutz Ruchama –Guided tour of Atar HaRishonim. Located just outside the fence ‎surrounding the kibbutz, is where the first Jewish settlers in modern times settled in the Negev. ‎