Netivot

Netivot is a city inside the Southern District of Israel placed between Beersheba and Gaza. In 2017 it had a populace of 33,779. Netivot turned into founded in 1956. Initially a ma'abara, it become later converted into a improvement metropolis. The first residents had been immigrants from Morocco and Tunisia. In the 1990s, they had been joined by using immigrants from Russia and Ethiopia. For a few years, Netivot suffered from excessive unemployment. Since 2008, Netivot has been the target of Grad missile attacks from Gaza. In 2012, a rocket exploded near a faculty in the metropolis.

A predominant landmark is the tomb of the Baba Sali, a Moroccan-born kabbalist who's buried there. In 2001, the ethnic make-up of the metropolis turned into 99.9 percentage Jewish, and not using a massive Arab populace, and the populace became frivolously divided between women and men. The metropolis ranked highly low in the socioeconomic index In the wake of Operation Solomon, Netivot absorbed a big variety of Ethiopian Jewish immigrants.