January 11 1951 – 4 Shevat 5711
An absorption camp was set up in Yeruham, in the Negev, to house Romanian immigrants. The site was named for nearby Tel Rahma, identified with the biblical settlement of Jeroham, which is appears among Pharao Shishak’s conquests on the walls of the Temple of Karnak, dating from the tenth century BCE. In 1959 permanent housing replaced the camp, and today Yeruham’s population numbers roughly eight thousand.