Negba
Kibbutz in southern Israel
title: "Negba" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["kibbutzim", "kibbutz-movement", "populated-places-established-in-1939", "1939-establishments-in-mandatory-palestine", "populated-places-in-southern-district-(israel)"] description: "Kibbutz in southern Israel" topic_path: "geography/israel" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negba" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Kibbutz in southern Israel ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox Israel village"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Negba |
| hebname | נגבה |
| arname | نجبا |
| image | File:(10)מוזיאון תחת כיפת השמים בקיבוץ נגבה,.jpg |
| founded | 12 July 1939 |
| founded_by | Hashomer Hatzair members |
| district | south |
| council | Yoav |
| affiliation | Kibbutz Movement |
| popyear | |
| population | |
| pushpin_map | Israel ashkelon |
| coordinates | |
| website | www.negba.org.il |
| :: |
| name = Negba |hebname = נגבה |arname = نجبا | image = File:(10)מוזיאון תחת כיפת השמים בקיבוץ נגבה,.jpg | caption= | founded = 12 July 1939 | founded_by= Hashomer Hatzair members | district = south | council = Yoav | affiliation= Kibbutz Movement | popyear = | population = | population_footnotes= | pushpin_map= Israel ashkelon |pushpin_mapsize=250 | coordinates= | website = www.negba.org.il Negba () is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located in the northern Negev desert near the cities of Kiryat Malakhi and Ashkelon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Yoav Regional Council. In it had a population of .
The name of the kibbutz is based on a verse in the Book of Genesis (13:14), where God commands Abraham to cast his eyes and travel throughout the land of Israel, toward the north, south, east and west. The word "negba" means "southward" in Biblical Hebrew.
History
Foundation
Kibbutz Negba was founded on 12 July 1939 as part of the tower and stockade enterprise. The first settlers were members of Hashomer Hatzair from Poland. It was the southernmost Jewish settlement in Mandatory Palestine.
Battle for Negba, 1948
Main article: Battles of Negba
In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the Israeli military engaged in many battles with Egypt. When the Egyptians invaded on 15 May 1948, their forces advanced and captured the police station, Iraq-Suweidan, a Tegart fort named after the nearby Arab village, that controlled the route to the Negev. Aside from the police station, the Egyptians seized Arab villages near the kibbutz, from which they attacked Jewish vehicles travelling on the roads from Ashkelon to Hebron and Jerusalem.
The kibbutz was destroyed in the heavy fighting which went on for three months. On 9 November 1948, after the defeat of the Egyptian army in Operation Yoav, the police station was captured by the Israel Defense Forces.
A memorial to the fallen soldiers was constructed next to the military cemetery: a man and a woman from the kibbutz with a fighting soldier. Next to the memorial statue stands an Egyptian tank. The kibbutz water tower, pockmarked with bullet holes, is a testimony to the fierce battle.
Gallery
File:נגבה - העליה לנגבה-JNF026081.jpeg|Negba foundation 1939 File:Negba-homa-u-migdal.jpg|Tower and stockade replica File:מראה כללי של נגבה בחוף הנגב-JNF002733.jpeg|Negba 1942 Image:Metzudat-Yoav001.jpg|"Meztudat Yoav", the former Iraq Suweidan police station File:Rapoport negba.jpg|Nathan Rapoport, memorial to the participants in the 1948 battles
Economy
The kibbutz economy is based on poultry, cattle, orchards, vegetables and two factories. It also has a history museum featuring a reconstructed model of the tower and stockade settlements. Negba, along with Sde Yoav, operate Hamei Yoav, a spa with hot springs and thermo-mineral baths.
Under a new financial arrangement, members who left the kibbutz are able to return as "economically independent members." They live in residences registered in their own name and are partners with equal rights and obligations in the communal element of the kibbutz (education, culture, welfare and infrastructure) but not in the productive assets (agriculture, industrial enterprises and shares in the dairy cooperative Tnuva).
Geography
Climate
|location= Negba (Temperature: 1995–2010, Precipitation: 1980-2010) |metric first= yes |single line= yes |Jan record high C= 33.0 |Feb record high C= 32.4 |Mar record high C= 37.7 |Apr record high C= 42.0 |May record high C= 46.5 |Jun record high C= 42.0 |Jul record high C= 38.4 |Aug record high C= 39.0 |Sep record high C= 42.4 |Oct record high C= 41.6 |Nov record high C= 36.0 |Dec record high C= 33.0 |Jan high C= 17.6 |Feb high C= 18.2 |Mar high C= 20.7 |Apr high C= 24.6 |May high C= 27.8 |Jun high C= 30.0 |Jul high C= 31.7 |Aug high C= 31.9 |Sep high C= 30.8 |Oct high C= 28.1 |Nov high C= 24.3 |Dec high C= 19.9 |year high C= |Jan mean C= 12.9 |Feb mean C= 13.3 |Mar mean C= 15.3 |Apr mean C= 18.4 |May mean C= 21.5 |Jun mean C= 24.3 |Jul mean C= 26.5 |Aug mean C= 26.9 |Sep mean C= 25.7 |Oct mean C= 23.0 |Nov mean C= 18.9 |Dec mean C= 15.0 |year mean C= |Jan low C= 8.3 |Feb low C= 8.3 |Mar low C= 9.9 |Apr low C= 12.3 |May low C= 15.2 |Jun low C= 18.6 |Jul low C= 21.3 |Aug low C= 22.0 |Sep low C= 20.6 |Oct low C= 17.9 |Nov low C= 13.5 |Dec low C= 12.1 |year low C= |Jan record low C= -2.5 |Feb record low C= -1.5 |Mar record low C= 0 |Apr record low C= 2.5 |May record low C= 6.0 |Jun record low C= 11.5 |Jul record low C= 15.0 |Aug record low C= 14.0 |Sep record low C= 12.8 |Oct record low C= 9.0 |Nov record low C= 1.0 |Dec record low C= -2.6 |Jan rain mm= 119 |Feb rain mm= 105 |Mar rain mm= 55 |Apr rain mm= 11 |May rain mm= 3.2 |Jun rain mm= 0 |Jul rain mm= 0 |Aug rain mm= 0 |Sep rain mm= 2.3 |Oct rain mm= 26 |Nov rain mm= 66 |Dec rain mm= 103 |unit rain days=0.1 mm |Jan rain days= 11 |Feb rain days= 10 |Mar rain days= 7 |Apr rain days= 2 |May rain days= 0.7 |Jun rain days= 0.1 |Jul rain days= 0 |Aug rain days= 0 |Sep rain days= 0.2 |Oct rain days= 3 |Nov rain days= 6 |Dec rain days= 9 |source 1= Israel Meteorological Service{{cite web |url= http://www.ims.gov.il/IMS/CLIMATE/ClimaticAtlas/RainNormals.htm |title=Precipitation average| access-date= 12 July 2011}}
Notable residents
- Giora Epstein (20 May 1938 – 19 July 2025), Israeli Air Force (IAF) officer and fighter ace
- Yossi Peled (born 1941), Israeli general and politician
- Anat Maor (born 1945), Israeli politician
- Avshalom Vilan (born 1951), Israeli politician and economist
References
References
- [http://www.hamei-yoav.co.il/html/1odot/e-odot.html Hamei Yoav] {{webarchive. link. (2009-11-22)
- [https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/851477.html Less equality, more freedom and Kibbutz Negba's prodigal sons return] Haaretz
- "Temperature average". Israel Meteorological Service.
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