• Israel's deadliest traffic accident took place in December 2008 when a tourists' coach en route to the resort town of Eilat plunged into a ravine?

Facts on topics related to Eilat

Beersheba

• although Israeli forces were planning to attack Arab Beersheba in May 1948, they were forced to delay the Battle of Beersheba until just one day before a planned ceasefire in October 1948?

Negev

• the three lookouts, Gvulot, Beit Eshel and Revivim, served as a springboard for Jewish settlement in the Negev desert?
• the evacuation of its base at Žatec, Czechoslovakia, in August 1948 allowed the Israeli Air Force to bring over 2,000 tons of supplies to the besieged Negev in Operation Avak?