Middle East
Israel
Southern District

Midreshet Ben-Gurion

Midreshet Ben-Gurion, also known as Midreshet Sde Boker, is a community settlement and an educational center in southern . Located in the next to kibbutz , it falls under the jurisdiction of Ramat HaNegev Regional Council.
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Photo: Yoavd, Public domain.
  • Type: Village with 2,000 residents
  • Description: community settlement located in the south of Israel
  • Also known as: “Midreshet Sde Boker”
  • Postal code: 84900

Places of Interest

Highlights include Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies and Ben Gurion’s Tomb National Park.

University
The is an international graduate school situated within the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, which is part of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Park
Photo: Pini zruya, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ben-Gurion Tomb National Park is a national park located next to the Midreshet Ben-Gurion. The garden was established around the grave plot where the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel David Ben-Gurion and his wife Paula were buried.

Protected area
Photo: In-bar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ein Avdat or Ein Ovdat is a in the Negev Desert of , south of Kibbutz . Archaeological evidence shows that Ein Avdat was inhabited by Nabateans and Catholic monks.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sde Boker and Avdat.

Photo: Tamuz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a kibbutz in the central , most famous for being the past residence of the first prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, who moved there after he left his office in order to live his ideals of settling the Negev.

Village
Photo: Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sde Boker is a kibbutz in the central , most famous for being the past residence of the first prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, who moved there after he left his office in order to live his ideals of settling the Negev. is situated 5 km southwest of Midreshet Ben-Gurion.

Village
is a religious community settlement in southern Israel. Located in the desert between and the kibbutz of , it falls under the jurisdiction of Ramat HaNegev Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 641. is situated 6 km northeast of Midreshet Ben-Gurion.

Midreshet Ben-Gurion

Latitude
30.8528° or 30° 51′ 10″ north
Longitude
34.78269° or 34° 46′ 58″ east
Population
2,000
Elevation
468 metres (1,535 feet)
Open location code
8G2PVQ3M+43
Open­Street­Map ID
way 907737243
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6929924
Wiki­data ID
Q2776759
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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Turkish—“Midreshet Ben-Gurion” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Мідрэшэт Бен-Гурыён”
  • Catalan: “Midreshet Ben-Gurion”
  • Cebuano: “Midreshet Ben-Gurion”
  • Chinese: “本-古里安教育中心”
  • Chinese: “米德希特本-古里安”
  • Chinese: “米德雷什特本-古里昂”
  • Chinese: “米德雷谢特·本-古里安”
  • Czech: “Midrešet Ben Gurion”
  • Danish: “Midreshet Ben-Gurion”
  • Dutch: “Midreshet Ben-Gurion”
  • Esperanto: “Midraŝejo Ben-Gurion”
  • Esperanto: “Midreŝet Ben-Gurion”
  • Esperanto: “Midreŝet Sde Boker”
  • Hebrew: “מדרשת בן גוריון”
  • Hebrew: “מדרשת בן-גוריון”
  • Hebrew: “מדרשת שדה בוקר”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Midreshet Ben-Gurion”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Midreshet Ben-Gurion”
  • Polish: “Midreshet Ben Gurion”
  • Polish: “Midreszet Ben Gurion”
  • Russian: “Мидрешет Бен-Гурион”
  • Spanish: “Midreshet Ben-Gurion”
  • Spanish: “Midreshet Ben-Gurión”
  • Swedish: “Midreshet Ben-Gurion”
  • Turkish: “Midreşet Ben-Gurion”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Midreshet Ben-Gurion”. Photo: Yoavd, Public domain.