MITZPE REVIVIM (YOSEF WEITZ REVIVIM OBSERVATION POST)

Return Revivim was founded in 1943 as part of a plan to establish 12 research stations in the Negev to examine prospects for implantation in this uninhabited region. The founding group, formed in 1938, first settled in a temporary kibbutz near Rishon Le Zion, and then moved here in 1943. It was then faced with many difficulties, including heat, lack of water and lack of livelihoods. The museum recounts the life of these settlers and the difficulties they had to overcome, including during the war of Independence when Kibbutz Revivim fell behind Egyptian lines.