Nahal Mamshit

The story

Nahal Mamshit is an ephemeral stream in the Negev Highlands, and among the northernmost of the streams of the region. It passes about five kilometers from Dimona, and its Arabic name is Kurnub. The stream is a nature reserve, and is named after the Nabatean city nearby. It begins at Har Dimon, in the eastern part of Dimona, and descends eastward toward Mamshit. Up to the city it flows in a broad plain of sands; afterwards it cuts into a deep canyon as it crosses the Har Tzayad–Har Rotem anticline. Further along its way southward it joins Nahal Hatira, one of the tributaries of Nahal Tzin, which descends through the Arava to the Dead Sea. In the channel, at the foot of Mamshit, dams are built. The lower part of one of them is from the Byzantine period. A marked and prepared walking route passes along the stream, whose length is three and a half kilometers in a straight line or two and a half in a circle, and the duration of the walk on it is between one hour and three hours. Its beginning is at the entrance to the Mamshit National Park.

• Water and wells
• Desert
• Dimona