When Abraham walked the desert dunes of Beersheba nearly 4,000 years ago, he could not have imagined that thousands of years later, people would still travel to the well associated with his ...

one desert city and a water well don’t necessarily comprise the elements of a multidisciplinary art space, but they do in Beersheba. Called HaBeer, for the ancient well located in the courtyard ...

Beersheba was born, according to the Bible, when Abraham built a well (be’er, in Hebrew) in the Negev Desert (Genesis 21:31). When servants of the king seized his well, Abraham complained to ...

“The spa, built not far from Nahal Beersheba and today close to the Abraham’s Well Center, was excavated by Peter Fabian of the Antiquities Authority,” notes Flavia Sontag, Israeli ...

Many immigrants who played chess were drawn to Beersheba by Levant’s reputation. “Beersheba is a well-known name,” said Michael Klenburg, 27, who came to Israel in 1994 from Lviv ...

Remember poet Wilfred Owen talking of men “who die like cattle”? Well, they always had, but the Battle of Beersheba is the brief shining moment of the old order surging into life through the ...