After a stop for lunch, we went to Sde Boker, site of the kibbutz that David Ben-Gurion joined in retirement in an effort to encourage young pioneers to settle the desert. Ben-Gurion saw the future of Israel as being rooted in settlement in the desert. He hoped that there would be cities, industry and mining in the desert. Few share that vision today, seeing instead the fragile ecosystem that must be preserved.
Nonetheless, because of his love for the desert, Ben-Gurion and his wife Paula are buried at Sde Boker. We visited their graves, but much more impressive was the view of a desert canyon that lies to the south and east of the grave site.
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