“Philly Thing” Art Shelter ~ Shlomit ~ Philadelphia JNF Supporters

Located in the Northwest Negev, in the Eshkol Regional Counceil, a kilometer from the Gaza border, Halutza was a barren desert—sand dunes were its most prominent feature. But in cooperation with JNF, Halutza’s pioneers laid roads, created an infrastructure, brought in prefabricated temporary housing, erected hundreds of greenhouses, planted crops, and built fields of solar energy panels. Today, Halutza has grown from its 30 founding families to 2,500 families in the region, in three communities: Naveh, Bnei Netzarim, and Shlomit. Projects have included the Halutza Medical Center, the Halutza Student Program, the Naveh Synagogue Project, and the Young Farmer’s Incubator Project.