Ein Yahav

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Coordinates: 30°39′30.6″N 35°14′12.48″E / 30.6585, 35.2368

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Ein Yahav (Hebrew: עין יהב‎) is a moshav in Israel under the jurisdiction of the Central Arava Regional Council.

It was first settled by members of the agricultural branch of the Army (Nahal) in 1960. they set up tents and followed the dictate of David Ben-Gurion to make the desert bloom.

There is an ancient copper-smelting site near Ein-Yahav. A small hill with blackened slopes, covered mainly by crushed copper slag, identify the remains of the smelting devices used at the end of the Early Bronze Age for smelting copper.

Today there are approximately 70 families on Ein Yahav.

[edit] Geography

The moshav is situated in Israel's Southern Arava Valley, between the Dead Sea and Eilat.

Ein-Yahav has an airfield nearby (Airport Code: EIY)

[edit] Economics

Agricultural enterprises include raising of cherry tomato, eggplants and production of Aloe Vera.

Matamaon Ba'Arava is a tourist lodging of log cabins located on the moshav.

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