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Yeruham ( Yeroham) is a town (local council
Local council (Israel)

Local councils are one of the three types of local government found in Israel, with the other two being list of cities in Israel and Regional council ....
) in the Southern District
South District (Israel)

The South District is one of Israel's Districts of Israel, and is the largest in terms of land area as well as the most sparsely populated. It covers most of the Negev desert, as well as the Arabah valley....
 of Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
, in the Negev
Negev

The Negev is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The indigenous Negev Bedouin inhabitants of the region refer to the desert as al-Naqab ....
 desert. It covers 38,584 dunam
Dunam

A dunam or d?n?m, dunum, donum is a Units of measurement of area used in the Ottoman Empire and still used, in various standardized versions, in many countries formerly part of the Ottoman Empire....
s (~38.6 kmē) and had a population of 9,400 in 2006. It is named after the Biblical
Hebrew Bible

The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to those books of the Bible originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic....
 Jeroham
Jeroham

Jeroham is a name that means cherished or one who finds mercy. A number of people by this name is referenced in the Bible:#Father of Elkanah, and grandfather of the prophet Samuel — in ....
. The mayor of Yeruham is Amram Mitzna
Amram Mitzna

Amram Mitzna is an Israeli politician. He is the acting mayor of Yeruham, a reserve general in the Israeli Defense Forces and the former mayor of Haifa and leader of the Labor Party ....
.

Yeruham is the site of Tel Rahma, dating back to the 10th century BCE. On the outskirts of Yeruham is an ancient well, Be'er Rahma (??? ????). Some archeologists have identified it as the well where the biblical Hagar
Hagar (Bible)

Hagar , according to the Abrahamic faiths, was an Egyptian handmaiden of Sarah, wife of Abraham. At Sarah's suggestion, she became Abraham's second wife....
 drew water for her son Ishmael
Ishmael

Ishmael is a figure in the Torah, Bible, and Qur'an. Judaism, Christianity and Islam Ishmael is Abraham's eldest son or first born and natural heir....
.

Modern Yeruham was founded on January 9, 1951 as Kfar Yeruham , but became Yeruham in 1962.






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Yeruham ( Yeroham) is a town (local council
Local council (Israel)

Local councils are one of the three types of local government found in Israel, with the other two being list of cities in Israel and Regional council ....
) in the Southern District
South District (Israel)

The South District is one of Israel's Districts of Israel, and is the largest in terms of land area as well as the most sparsely populated. It covers most of the Negev desert, as well as the Arabah valley....
 of Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
, in the Negev
Negev

The Negev is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The indigenous Negev Bedouin inhabitants of the region refer to the desert as al-Naqab ....
 desert. It covers 38,584 dunam
Dunam

A dunam or d?n?m, dunum, donum is a Units of measurement of area used in the Ottoman Empire and still used, in various standardized versions, in many countries formerly part of the Ottoman Empire....
s (~38.6 kmē) and had a population of 9,400 in 2006. It is named after the Biblical
Hebrew Bible

The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to those books of the Bible originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic....
 Jeroham
Jeroham

Jeroham is a name that means cherished or one who finds mercy. A number of people by this name is referenced in the Bible:#Father of Elkanah, and grandfather of the prophet Samuel — in ....
. The mayor of Yeruham is Amram Mitzna
Amram Mitzna

Amram Mitzna is an Israeli politician. He is the acting mayor of Yeruham, a reserve general in the Israeli Defense Forces and the former mayor of Haifa and leader of the Labor Party ....
.

Yeruham is the site of Tel Rahma, dating back to the 10th century BCE. On the outskirts of Yeruham is an ancient well, Be'er Rahma (??? ????). Some archeologists have identified it as the well where the biblical Hagar
Hagar (Bible)

Hagar , according to the Abrahamic faiths, was an Egyptian handmaiden of Sarah, wife of Abraham. At Sarah's suggestion, she became Abraham's second wife....
 drew water for her son Ishmael
Ishmael

Ishmael is a figure in the Torah, Bible, and Qur'an. Judaism, Christianity and Islam Ishmael is Abraham's eldest son or first born and natural heir....
.

Modern Yeruham was founded on January 9, 1951 as Kfar Yeruham , but became Yeruham in 1962. It was one of Israel's first development town
Development town

Development town is a term used to refer to the new settlements that were built in Israel during the 1950s in order to expand the population of the country's peripheral areas and to ease development pressure on the country's crowded centre....
s, created to settle frontier areas in the early days of the state.

For many years, Yeruham was economically depressed and suffered from image problems, but major efforts to improve the quality of life are under way.