Hevel Shalom is an area in the western Negev desert, part of the Eshkol Regional Council. It is close to Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip and Egypt’s Sinai. This area was elected to be substitutive area for evacuees from Yamit. Yamit was an Israeli settlement in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula with a population of about 2,500 people. Yamit was established during Israel’s occupation of the peninsula from the end of the 1967 Six-Day War until that part of the Sinai was handed over to Egypt in April 1982, as part of the terms of the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty.
This Art Shelter project, partnering with the JNF-USA began down in southern Eshkol, in the Hevel Shalom area. This is the reason why this shelter is adorned with the Israeli and the American flags, with scenes of America and Israel in the background, in honor of this beautiful collaboration between JNF-USA and Israel.
