Be'er Sheva

Beersheba, also Be'er Sheva, is the largest city within the Negev wasteland of southern Israel. Often called the "Capital of the Negev", it is the middle of the fourth maximum populous metropolitan place in Israel, the eighth maximum populous Israeli town with a populace of 207,551,and the second one biggest metropolis with a total vicinity of 117,500 dunams. The Biblical period references to Beersheva check with a site, Tel Be'er Sheva, mendacity a few 2 and a 1/2 miles distant from the present day city, which became mounted the begin of the 20th century when a everlasting agreement was installed with the aid of the Ottoman Turks.

The city became captured by way of the British led Australian Light Horse in the course of World War I. In 1947, Bir Seb'a because it turned into regarded, become expected as a part of the Arab state in the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine. Following the declaration of Israel's independence, the Egyptian navy accumulated its forces in Beersheba as a strategic and logistical base. In the Battle of Beersheba waged in October 1948, it became conquered via the Israel Defense Forces.