Seminar Center:
Zel haTamar

Tzell Hatamar Dessert Sojours is Kibbutz Lotans Seminar center\tourisim Branch . Since 1995 Kibbutz Lotan offers a number of special and unique programs, the variety reflecting a combination of the wide range of talents of Lotan's members along with the beautiful and spiritual location in the Arava valley of Southern Israel. Kibbutz Lotan also offers bed and breakfast facilities.

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Educational Programs
for Jewish Youth Groups and Congregational Visits

Judaism

In addition to a variety of personnel experienced in university level education, youth direction, and adult education, our permanent faculty includes a rabbi and a published writer on the subject of Zionist Education. We are well equipped to suit the needs of different programs in Jewish Studies.

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The summers of one's youth become the memories of a lifetime. Kibbutz Lotan’s three day Israeli Kibbutz Seminar and Youth Encounter can make a summer special. Programs include: Ideas Behind the Reform Kibbutz, Working On the Kibbutz, The Desert and Spirituality, Meeting with Kibbutz Members, and Israeli/Diaspora Youth Encounter.

The area of emphasis is on Jewish Zionist education, both through intellectual and experiential activities.

Kibbutz Lotan’s unique location in the Arava Valley and our qualified educational staff (including a professional birding guide, a licensed desert guide, and a certified Permaculture teacher, as well as activity leaders trained in alternative farming and building methods) make our ecological programs especially informative and rewarding.

For more details of Lotan's ecological projects: click here

For more details of Lotan's ecological projects: click here.

A serious examination of the natural history of the region including botany, zoology, and geology, with a special emphasis on the effects of human settlement on the environment in the Eilat-Eilot Region.

At Kibbutz Lotan the exploration of the soul takes on many forms. We offer programs with professional guidance in Yoga and Vipassana Meditation. The simplicity, silence and natural beauty of the desert make Lotan an excellent location to improve one's relationship with the world around while gaining an understanding of the world within.

Yoga means “unity” in the ancient language of Sanskrit. It is a technique and a way of thinking that is directed towards purifying the body and the consciousness in preparation for a tranquil and alert vision of reality as it is. The tranquillity is achieved by stilling the waves of thought and realizing the connection between the inner self and the environment.