Ir Ovot
Ir Ovot is situated around 30°48′″N 35°14′″E / °N °E / ; south of the Dead Sea and southeast of Dimona in the Arabah valley, an arid plain located below the Negev plateau and south of the Jordan Rift Valley within the larger Great Rift Valley. The settlement abuts the Ein Hatzeva bloc of agricultural villages on the opposite side of Highway 90 near the Jordanian border, and is within the boundaries of the Tamar Regional Council.[citation needed] [edit] History Originally the site of the Ein Husub police station during the British Mandate of Palestine, the location was captured by the Israel Defense Forces in 1948. The village of Ir Ovot was founded in 1967, in an area deserted apart from a small military base and roadside cafe on the way to Eilat. It was founded by a group of American Jews led by former law student and court clerk Simcha Pearlmutter, a Jew from Miami, Florida, who that year took a second wife in addition to his first one.[1][2] Oboth (Numbers 21:10; Deuteronomy 33:44) was one of the camping stations used by the Israelites during their Exodus from Egypt. The group was eventually joined by a few Jews and a number of gentiles who supported the self-styled Rabbi Pearlmutter. After disputes with the Jewish Agency, Pearlmutter found a political and financial sponsor in the Satmar Hasidic group. Throughout the 1980s, Ir Ovot, which featured a cheder, synagogue, communal dining room, and members' meeting, was considered a Haredi kibbutz, but a 1986 conflict between Pearlmutter and the Edah HaChareidis in Jerusalem led to the departure of his first, Jewish wife, and some of their children. His second wife remained even after his 1999 death. Officially dissolved as a Kibbutz association in the mid-1980s by two court-assigned liquidators, after further conflicts with local government over land leasing rights, the families remained in individual capacities, with legal ownership of the land. The village was joined by a
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