Urim (kibbutz)
| Urim | |||
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| hebrew : | אורים | ||
| State : |
 Israel
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| District : | south | ||
| Founded : | 5th / 6th October 1946 | ||
| Coordinates : | 31 ° 18 ' N , 34 ° 31' E | ||
| Height : | 94 m | ||
| Residents : | 493 (as of: 2018) | ||
| Community code : | 0403 | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 2 | ||
| Postal code : | 85530 | ||
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Urim ( Hebrew אורים) is a kibbutz located about 30 km west of Be'er Scheva in southern Israel with 493 inhabitants (2018). The border with the southern Gaza Strip runs ten kilometers west of Urim .
The kibbutz was founded on the night of October 5th to 6th, 1946, at the end of the Yom Kippur festival , as part of Operation 11 Points in the Negev desert .
The founders were mainly Jews from Bulgaria , the later settlers mostly came from North America .
Web links
Commons : Urim (Kibbutz) - collection of images, videos and audio files
- kibbutz urim ( Memento from July 1, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .