Be'er Milka is a moshav

Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah...

 in southern Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. Located in the central Negev

Negev

The Negev is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The Arabs, including the native Bedouin population of the region, refer to the desert as al-Naqab. The origin of the word Neghebh is from the Hebrew root denoting 'dry'...

 desert close to the Egypt

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

ian border, around three kilometres from Kmehin

Kmehin

Kmehin |Truffles]]) is a secular moshav in the western Negev desert in Israel.Located near Nitzana, it is named for the truffles that grow in the area. The moshav was founded in 1988 and is part of Ramat HaNegev Regional Council. It is home to around 30 families.The moshav's main produce is cherry...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ramat HaNegev Regional Council

Ramat HaNegev Regional Council

Ramat Negev Regional Council is a regional council in the Negev desert in Israel. The largest regional council in the country, its headquarters are located on Highway 40 between Mashabei Sadeh and Tlalim.-Places:...

.

In 2001 a gar'in group from Bnei HaMoshavim (associated with HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed

Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed

Histadrut HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed , sometimes abbreiviated to No'al is an Israeli youth movement, a sister movement of Habonim Dror, the Labor Zionist movement....

 and the Moshavim Movement

Moshavim Movement

The Moshavim Movement is one of the main settlement movements in Israel, whose members are cooperative villages organized as moshavim and moshavim shitufiim...

) began to develop in preparation for founding a new moshav. The gar'in group was established in 2002, and began organising themselves in Kmehin

Kmehin

Kmehin |Truffles]]) is a secular moshav in the western Negev desert in Israel.Located near Nitzana, it is named for the truffles that grow in the area. The moshav was founded in 1988 and is part of Ramat HaNegev Regional Council. It is home to around 30 families.The moshav's main produce is cherry...

, before establishing Be'er Milka in 2006

The moshav is located in a nature reserve

Nature reserve

A nature reserve is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research...

 at the location of an ancient well

Water well

A water well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, boring or drilling to access groundwater in underground aquifers. The well water is drawn by an electric submersible pump, a trash pump, a vertical turbine pump, a handpump or a mechanical pump...

 at the confluence

Confluence

Confluence, in geography, describes the meeting of two or more bodies of water.Confluence may also refer to:* Confluence , a property of term rewriting systems...

 of Nahal Lavan and Nahal Nitzana.

External links

• Be'er Milka Negev Information Centre
• "http://vimeo.com/9358268" a documentary film by Maren Wickwire about a family in Be'er Milka