Yeroham

Yeroham is a metropolis inside the Southern District of Israel, inside the Negev barren region. It covers 38,584 dunams, and had a population of 9,511 in 2017. It is known as after the Biblical Jeroham. The mayor of Yeruham changed into Amram Mitzna, but his time period ended in early 2011, and he changed into succeeded through Michael Biton of Kadima, who turned into elected mayor in November 2010. For a few years, Yeruham turned into economically depressed and suffered from image issues, but predominant efforts to improve the satisfactory of existence are below manner.

Yeruham is the web page of Tel Rahma, relationship again to the tenth century BCE. On the outskirts of Yeruham is an ancient properly, Be'er Rahma. Some archeologists have diagnosed it because the properly in which the biblical Hagar drew water for her son Ishmael. During the Roman and Byzantine duration there has been a Nabatean village within the western outskirts of the city and its ruins can be seen nowadays.