Nir Am is a kibbutz

Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...

 in southern Israel

Israel

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. Located near Sderot

Sderot

Sderot is a western Negev city in the Southern District of Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2009 the city had a total population of 20,700. The city has been an ongoing target of Qassam rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip...

 and covering 20,000 dunam

Dunam

A dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum, dynym, dulum was a non-SI unit of land area used in the Ottoman Empire and representing the amount of land that can be plowed in a day; its value varied from 900–2500 m²...

s, it fall under the jurisdiction of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council

Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council

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. In 2007 it had a population of 281.

The village was established on 19 August 1943 by immigrants

Aliyah

Aliyah is the immigration of Jews to the Land of Israel . It is a basic tenet of Zionist ideology. The opposite action, emigration from Israel, is referred to as yerida . The return to the Holy Land has been a Jewish aspiration since the Babylonian exile...

 from Bessarabia

Bessarabia

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 who were members of the Gordonia youth movement, including Zvi Guershoni

Zvi Guershoni

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, later a member of the Knesset

Knesset

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. Over the years the kibbutz has also absorbed immigrants from Argentina

Argentina

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, France

France

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 and South Africa

South Africa

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External links

• Kibbutz website
• Nir Am Negev Information Centre