Eshel HaNasi

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Eshel HaNasi (Hebrew: אשל הנשיא‎) is a communal settlement and youth village in southern Israel, near the towns of Beersheba and Ofakim. It is part of the Merhavim Regional Council. The settlement was founded in 1951. It supposedly derives its name from the tamarisk trees (eshel in Hebrew) that grown in the region, and from the title of the President of Israel (Nasi in Hebrew), in honor of Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann. Taken together, the name means "Tamarisk of the President." In fact, the settlement was named for the Eshel HaNasi agricultural school and youth village which preceded it and around which the settlement grew.