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October 10, 2011. Badlands with marks of passage within the Naḥal Besōr Forest in the Eshkol National Park. The badlands (see 2) take up most of the frame of the image, with the hiking trails of the Eshkol National Park visible as faint etching throughout. The park, established in 1960 by the JNF and named after Levi Eshkol, the Labor Movement leader who served as prime minister of Israel from 1963 to 1969, covers 1,000 dunams (approx. 247 acres) of the Negev. The Naḥal Besōr hiking trails pass reservoirs and pools constructed by the JNF to trap floodwater from the HaBesor streambed during winter flash floods. The site rests upon the former villages of Abu al-Ḥusein and Ghawāli, of the Tarabīn tribe, which were evacuated in the wake of Operation Yoʼav in 1948 (see 7).