Zin Desert

The wilderness of Zin is a stone desert of the Negev in Israel today. Is drained this area in the direction of the Dead Sea through the Nahal Zin ( "Bach Zin " ), arbischer Name: Wadi Murra, which leads only temporarily water.

The area of ​​the wilderness of Zin is sparsely populated. In the area there are, however, phosphate deposits, which are mined extensively around the Har ( Mount ) Zin. Separate, public transport locked slopes are created for the removal. In the southeast, directly below the mountain, whose two peaks are connected by a narrow sharp ridge, there is a large stone field whose round rocks are compared in a guide with huge potatoes.

At the upper reaches of Nahal Zin are also the sources of En Avdat and the Kibbutz Sede Boker, is buried in the nearby David Ben Gurion.

The wilderness of Zin is mentioned several times in the Bible; the area there intentioned but extends much further to the west. So Moses is said to have beaten on the hike through the wilderness of Zin with his stick against a rock, from the then water for the thirsty people flowed (4th book of Genesis 20). After the conquest by the Israelites of the tribe of Judah was given a territory whose southern border in the wilderness of Zin was ( Joshua 15:1).