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BBC: The Negev desert wine route

In October 2012, Israeli warplanes tracked and eventually shot down a drone over the country's northern Negev Desert.

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To prove this point, he and his team buried aluminium squares at different depths under the sand of the Negev desert in southern Israel.

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Umm al-Hiran lies in a wadi, or small valley, not far from the large town of Beersheba at the top end of the Negev desert.

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Scattered elsewhere around the country are even smaller micro breweries such as Asif in Ramot Haftali and Malka in Kibbutz Yechiam, both in the Galilee region, Lone Tree in the Judean Mountains and Negev in Kiryat Gat in the southern desert.

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