Midburn (

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: מידברן;

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: ميدبيرن) is a 6-day event held in the

Negev Desert The Negev or Negeb (; he, הַנֶּגֶב, hanNegév; ar, ٱلنَّقَب, an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region's largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba (pop. ), in the north. At its southe ...

in southern

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History

The first annual event was held in June 2014, and was attended by 3,000 people. The second event was held on May 20–24, 2015, and was attended by 6,500 people. The name itself is a

portmanteau A portmanteau word, or portmanteau (, ) is a blend of wordsBurning Man Burning Man is an event focused on community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance held annually in the western United States. The name of the event comes from its culminating ceremony: the symbolic burning of a large wooden effigy, referred ...

festival in the

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. The festival is held near

Sde Boker Sde Boker ( he, שְׂדֵה בּוֹקֵר, lit. ''Herding Field'') is a kibbutz in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Best known as the retirement home of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ramat ...

, and the themes of the event are creativity, art and personal expression. The burn is held every year in May or June, around the Jewish holiday of

Shavuot (''Ḥag HaShavuot'' or ''Shavuos'') , nickname = English: "Feast of Weeks" , observedby = Jews and Samaritans , type = Jewish and Samaritan , begins = 6th day of Sivan (or the Sunday following the 6th day of Sivan i ...

, and culminates in a bonfire of wooden sculptures. The third Midburn event, in 2016, had an attendance of 8,000 participants, making it the 2nd biggest regional event outside the US, after

AfrikaBurn AfrikaBurn is an official Burning Man regional event, held at Quaggafontein ( "fountain of Quagga") in the Tankwa Karoo, in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is centred on the building of a temporary creative community in a semi-desert ...

. As of 2018, it is the only Burning Man regional event in the

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References

External links

* * Nizzan Zvi Cohen
The Midburn Alternative

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