11 points in the Negev

Eleven points (Hebrew אַחַד עָשָׂר נְקֻדָּות הִתְיַשְּׁבוּת בנֶגֶב ) is the name of a 1946 surgery performed by the Jewish Agency for settlement of the Negev, which was inhabited until then mainly by Bedouins.

The majority of Jewish settlements was at that time in the north of present-day State of Israel. 1946, the plan of partition of Palestine was decided after 17% of the territory of the newly geschaffenden Jewish state should be allocated 40 % ( including in the north of the Negev ) the Arab State and the remaining 43% ( including Jerusalem, and of the south of the Negev ) should remain under the administration of Great Britain.

At the end of Yom Kippur ( 5 / 6 October ) in 1946 were established, headed by Levi Eshkol 11 kibbutzim: Urim ( אורים ) Be'eri ( בארי ), Gal -On ( גל און ) Chazerim, Kfar Darom ( כפר דרום ), Mishmar ha - Negev ( משמר הנגב ) Nevatim ( נבטים ) Nirim ( נירים ) Kedma ( קדמה ) Schowal and Tkuma ( תקומה ). These settlements were to bases of Israel in Palestine war and helped to repulse the Egyptian attack.

Today there are ten of the eleven settlements; Kfar Darom, which was located in the Gaza Strip, evacuated in 1948, rebuilt in 1970 and reapplied in August 2005 as part of the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The operation Eleven points is one of the most important actions of the Jewish settlement of Palestine.