Alumim (Hebrew: עֲלוּמִים, lit. ‘Youth’) is a kibbutz located in the northwestern Negev desert in southern Israel, near the Gaza Strip. It falls under the jurisdiction of Sdot Negev Regional Council.Kibbutz Alumim was established in 1966 as a border settlement with Egypt by Bnei Akiva members from a Nahal gar’in. Its land had belonged to the Religious Kibbutz Movement since the 1940s and was previously farmed by kibbutz Be’erot Yitzhak, which was relocated as a result of its destruction in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
Over the years other Nahal groups joined the kibbutz, as well as groups of immigrants from World Bnei Akiva. The largest groups from abroad came from the United Kingdom. Alumim is situated less than 5 kms from the border with Gaza.
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