Dimona

Dimona is an Israeli metropolis within the Negev wilderness, 36 kilometres to the south of Beersheba and 35 kilometres west of the Dead Sea above the Arava valley inside the Southern District of Israel. In 2017 its population was 33,666. Dimona turned into one of the improvement towns created within the 1950s under the management of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion. Dimona itself was conceived in 1953. The vicinity selected was near the Dead Sea Works. It turned into established in 1955. The first citizens were Jewish immigrants from North Africa, with an preliminary 36 households being the primary to settle there.

Its population in 1955 turned into approximately 300. The North African immigrants additionally built the town's houses. In the late Fifties and early Sixties, immigrants from Eastern Europe arrived. A fabric manufacturing facility become opened in 1958. That identical year, Dimona became a nearby council. In 1961, it had a populace of 5,000. The emblem of Dimona, followed 2 March 1961, regarded on a stamp issued on 24 March 1965. Dimona changed into d a metropolis in 1969. In 1971, it had a population of 23,700.