Hatzerim

Hatzerim is a village in Southern District, Israel. Hatzerim is situated nearby to the hamlet Kfar Refael, as well as near the neighborhood Sigaliot.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Israeli Air Force Museum and Beer Sheva Zoological Garden.

Israeli Air Force Museum

Museum

Photo: Alexey Goral, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Israeli Air Force Museum is located at Hatzerim Airbase in the Negev desert in Israel. The museum was established in 1977 and has been open to the public since 1991.

Negev Zoo was a desert zoo near the west entrance of Beersheba, Israel. The zoo's area is 50 dunams. It has a collection of mammalians, birds and reptiles of which the ungulates, turtles, snakes and lizards are especially notable. Beer Sheva Zoological Garden is situated 3½ km northeast of Hatzerim.

Midbarium

Zoo

The Midbarium or "Desertarium", also the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Animal Park is a desert zoo and amusement park at the edge of the desert by the northwest outskirts of Beersheba, Israel. Midbarium is situated 4 km northeast of Hatzerim.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hatzerim and Kfar Refael.

Hatzerim

Village

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Hatzerim is a kibbutz located 8 kilometers west of Beersheba in the Negev desert in Israel. It is named after the Bible, mentioning a site nearby: "the Avvites who lived in farmyards as far as Gaza".