The Nitzana Border Crossing ( Arabic : معبر نيتسانا , Hebrew : מעבר ניצנה ) is an international border crossing between El Ouga in Egypt and Nitzana in Israel . Opened in 1982, the crossing used to handle pedestrians as well as private cars but most of the crossing was being done via the Taba Border Crossing in Eilat and the Rafah Border Crossing in Rafah that the Israelis decided to shut down the crossing to tourists. There is talk of possibly reopening the crossing to tourists now that the Rafah crossing is no longer in Israeli control.
16-400: Today the terminal handles only commercial trade between the two nations. The terminal is open from Sunday to Thursday, 8:00 to 17:00. It is closed from Friday to Saturday as well as Jewish and Islamic holidays. In February 2013, the crossing was named after Aryeh Eliav , who among other things founded the nearby Nitzana Youth Village . During the early stages of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war ,
32-575: A Holocaust survivor from Kaunas, Lithuania, who was part of a group of refugees Eliav smuggled into Palestine as the commander of an illegal immigration ship in 1947. They had three children, Zvi, Ofra and Eyal. Eliav was first elected to the Knesset in the 1965 elections on the Alignment list, and was appointed Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry. During the Knesset term he became Deputy Minister of Immigrant Absorption . He retained his seat in
48-576: A new educational community, in the Negev desert. He served as the Head of Community until 2008. Eliav returned to the Knesset after the 1988 elections . He served one last Knesset term and in 1992 decided not to run for a new term. Eliav died in Tel Aviv on 30 May 2010 at the age of 89. Eliav helped to found the city of Arad in the Negev and promoted the development of Lakhish and Kiryat Gat . In
64-546: A rotation agreement saw the seats shared by five people; Eliav served the first term, before resigning from the Knesset in January 1979 to make way for Uri Avnery . In 1984 he established a personal faction that ran in the elections that year , but failed to cross the electoral threshold by around 5,000 votes. In 1987 he returned to the Labor Party. In 1987 he initiated and led a Jewish Agency project to found Nitzana ,
80-663: A visiting professor in several American academic institutes, including two years at Harvard University (1979–1980) and his two terms at Trinity College in the 1990s. As a teenager, he joined the Haganah in 1936, before joining the British Army in 1940, serving in an artillery unit. Upon his return home in 1945 he helped the Aliyah Bet movement and served as a colonel in the IDF . He later worked as an aide to Levi Eshkol on
96-745: Is accessible via the Ismaïlia - Abu Ujaylah highway in Shamal Sina' (North Sinai) . The Israeli border terminal can be reached via the Route 211 which ends at Nitzana Border Crossing, also Highway 10 passes through the crossing. The border terminal can also be reached by Metropoline bus number 44 from Beersheba 's central bus station. 30°52′56″N 34°23′40″E / 30.88222°N 34.39444°E / 30.88222; 34.39444 Aryeh Eliav Aryeh " Lova " Eliav ( Hebrew : אריה "לובה" אליאב , 21 November 1921 – 30 May 2010)
112-602: The 1969 elections , but was not given a ministerial portfolio. He was instead appointed general secretary of the Labour Party , but resigned in 1971 over the party's refusal to recognise the existence of the Palestinian people. After again retaining his seat in the 1973 elections , he left the party, first sitting as an independent MK, before joining with the Ratz faction to form Ya'ad – Civil Rights Movement . However,
128-785: The Independent Socialist Faction , whilst Shulamit Aloni and Boaz Moav returned to Ratz. In 1975 Benjamin Halevi left Likud to sit as an independent, whilst Shmuel Tamir and Akiva Nof left Likud to form the Free Centre the following year. In 1977 Hillel Seidel defected from the Independent Liberals to Likud, whilst Mordechai Ben-Porat broke away from the Alignment and sat as an independent. In February 1974 Progress and Development and
144-579: The seventeenth government on 3 June 1974, including Ratz, the Independent Liberals, Progress and Development and the Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers. The new government had 19 ministers. The National Religious Party joined the coalition on 30 October and Ratz left on the 6 November, by which time there were 21 ministers. The government resigned on 22 December 1976, after ministers of the National Religious Party were sacked because
160-534: The 1980s, he was the driving spirit behind the establishment of Nitzana in the western Negev, turning the sand dunes into a youth village . Eliav published 15 books, including: 1973 Israeli legislative election Legislative elections were held in Israel on 31 December 1973. Voter turnout was 79%. The election was postponed for two months because of the Yom Kippur War . The table below lists
176-795: The border crossing was used to inspect aid bound for the Gaza Strip . While cargo was inspected at Nitzana, trucks then drove 50 kilometres (31 mi) to the Rafah Border Crossing to enter Gaza from Egypt. On 2 February 2024, Israeli protesters blocked the crossing to prevent humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. On 11 April 2024, the Israeli police arrested protesters at the Nitzana Crossing who tried to block aid from reaching Palestinian civilians in Gaza. The Egyptian terminal
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#1732772029037192-541: The new party split up soon after its foundation, with Eliav founding a new party, the Social-Democratic Faction together with Marcia Freedman . The new party later changed its name to Independent Socialist Faction . In the run up to the 1977 elections , he joined the Left Camp of Israel , due to his opposition to settlements in the occupied territories . The new party won only two seats, but
208-478: The parliamentary factions represented in the 7th Knesset . Golda Meir of the Alignment formed the sixteenth government on 10 March 1974, including the National Religious Party and the Independent Liberals in her coalition, with 22 ministers. Meir resigned on 11 April 1974 after the Agranat Commission had published its interim report on the Yom Kippur War . The Alignment's Yitzhak Rabin formed
224-490: The party had abstained from voting on a motion of no confidence , which had been brought by Agudat Yisrael over a breach of the Sabbath on an Israeli Air Force base. During the Knesset term there were several defections from parties; In 1975 Aryeh Eliav left the Alignment and merged with Ratz to form Ya'ad - Civil Rights Movement . The new party broke up the following year when Eliav and Marcia Freedman left to set up
240-615: The topics of immigration, absorption and settlement. Between 1955 and 1957 he oversaw the foundation of several settlements in Lakhish Regional Council area. During the Suez Crisis he supervised Operation Tushia , which transported the Jews of Port Said to Israel. In 1958 he returned to Moscow, where he worked as the first secretary in the Israeli embassy, a position he held until 1960. Eliav married Tania Zvi,
256-616: Was an Israeli politician, author and intellectual, peace and social activist. He served as a member of the Knesset for several factions in three spells between 1965 and 1992. Lev Lipschitz (later Aryeh Eliav) was born in Moscow. His family immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1924. He studied history and sociology, gaining a BA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and worked as a teacher and sociologist. He later served as
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