Pushpin Map: | Israel north negev |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Coordinates: | 31.3478°N 35.0606°W |
Mahane Yatir | |
Foundation: | 1979 |
District: | south |
Hebname: | מחנה יתיר |
Mahane Yatir (Hebrew: מחנה יתיר||Yatir Camp), also known as Lev Yatir (Hebrew: לב יתיר||Heart of Yatir), is a village in the Yatir Forest in southern Israel. In it had a population of .
The village was established in 1979, and was named after a biblical city (Joshua 15:48) here in the allotment of the Tribe of Judah[1] In 2008 a gar'in was formed to establish a new village, Hiran, in the nearby area. The group moved to Mahane Yatir in 2010 in order to acclimatise to local conditions.[2] In 2013 it was added to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics count of localities.[3]