Middle East
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Southern District

Nir Am

Nir Am is a kibbutz in southern . Located next to the city of and around two kilometres from the , the kibbutz covers 20,000 dunams. It falls under the jurisdiction of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 659.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Sderot and Hesder Yeshiva of Sderot.

Railway station
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The railway station is a railway station located near the southern entrance to , . It is situated on the Ashkelon–Beersheba railway.

College
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The , known formally as the Max and Ruth Schwartz Yeshivat Hesder of Sderot, was founded in 1995 by Rabbi Dovid E. Fendel. The yeshiva is located in the town of , one kilometer from the and the Palestinian Arab town of .

Movie theater
Sderot Cinematheque is a film archive in , . The Sderot Cinematheque was established in December 1999. It was founded by Haim Bresheeth in cooperation with Sapir Academic College and mayor Eli Moyal.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sderot and Gevim.

Photo: Nizzan Cohen, CC BY 4.0.
is a western city and former development town in the of . In 2023, it had a population of 35,477. is located less than a mile from , and is notable for having been a major target of Qassam rocket attacks from the .

Village
is a kibbutz in southern . Located in the northwestern desert near , it falls under the jurisdiction of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 680.

Village
Photo: Rikmal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a kibbutz in southern . Located near the western city of and the , and covering 11,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 924. is situated 2½ km southwest of Nir Am.

Nir Am

Latitude
31.51931° or 31° 31′ 10″ north
Longitude
34.58076° or 34° 34′ 51″ east
Population
611
Elevation
128 metres (420 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IL NAM
Open location code
8G3PGH9J+P8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278476380
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
294035
Wiki­data ID
Q2891278
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Nir Am” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نير عام”
  • Catalan: “Nir Am”
  • Cebuano: “Nir‘am”
  • Chinese: “尼爾阿姆”
  • Czech: “Nir Am”
  • Dutch: “Nir Am”
  • French: “Nir Am”
  • German: “Nir Am”
  • Hebrew: “Nir ‘Am”
  • Hebrew: “Nir‘am”
  • Hebrew: “Nir’am”
  • Hebrew: “ניר עם”
  • Hebrew: “ניר-עם”
  • Hebrew: “נירעם”
  • Italian: “Nir Am”
  • Japanese: “ニルアム”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nir Am”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nir Am”
  • Norwegian: “Nir Am”
  • Persian: “نیر ام”
  • Persian: “نیر عام”
  • Polish: “Nir Am”
  • Russian: “Нир Ам”
  • Russian: “Нир-Ам”
  • Slovenian: “Nir Am”
  • Spanish: “Nir Am”
  • Swedish: “Nir‘am”
  • Turkish: “Nir Am”

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