Maayan BaMidbar
מעיין במדבר
Guest house · No kosher certificate
Kibbutz Yahel, off Road 90, Yahel
The 43 guest rooms of Kibbutz Yahel, the northernmost kibbutz of the southern Arava, set in a green garden 65 km north of Eilat, beside some of the region's cycling trails
Maayan BaMidbar is the guest-room compound of Kibbutz Yahel, founded in November 1976 as the first settlement of Reform Judaism and today home to more than 200 people. Its 43 air-conditioned rooms stand among lawns, flowering garden, shaded seats and barbecue corners, with parking close to the rooms. The kibbutz's semi-Olympic pool, with a toddlers' area and recently renovated, is free for guests in the long swimming season, the football, basketball and tennis courts are a few steps from the rooms, and guests may walk through the kibbutz to the big playground and the cowshed and calves. The dining room, run by chef Gil Peri, seats about 200 and serves breakfast, weekday lunches and a Friday-night dinner. The site courts cyclists: the Yahel to Ketura trail starts at the kibbutz gate, there is a corner for washing and fixing bikes, and it hosts riders of the Samarathon mountain-bike race every year.
What happens here
- Every Friday night
- Shabbat dinner with the kibbutz
A festive dinner in the dining room with the members of the kibbutz, with meat and fish dishes, a salad bar, soft drinks and free wine, and vegetarian and vegan options; places are booked at reception.
As published on yahel-tour.co.il, read 2026-10-05.
At a glance
- Check-in
- From 15:00
- Check-out
- By 11:00
- Meals
- Breakfast in the kibbutz dining room; lunch on weekdays and a Friday-night dinner by booking
- Kosher
- No certificate
- Pool
- Yes
- Wheelchair
- a signposted disabled parking bay in the guests' car park, a step-free path to the lobby, reception and dining room, an accessible reception desk with a hearing system, accessible toilets in the lobby and the dining room, and one accessible guest room with an accessible shower and toilet
- Parking
- Accessible parking listed
- Own website
- Facebook page
- Active on Instagram
- Good for families
Rooms
Rotem rooms
14 rooms
Ground-floor rooms with two beds, a shower and toilet, a kitchenette with a coffee corner, a small fridge and a microwave, cable television and air conditioning, with patches of lawn and shade for a picnic or a barbecue.
Upgraded Rotem rooms
3 rooms
Ground-floor rooms renovated and redesigned this year, with two beds, a new shower cubicle and toilet, a kitchenette, cable television and air conditioning.
Tamar rooms
15 rooms
Ground-floor rooms renovated last year, in five sets of three bedrooms joined by connecting doors, each set with a shared entrance and seating, and each room with a private balcony under a pergola, around a wide shaded lawn.
Tzeelon rooms
10 rooms
Recently renovated ground-floor rooms with lawn and the shade of trees between them, two beds, a shower and toilet, a kitchenette, cable television and air conditioning; suited to groups and large families who want a closed compound.
The rooms are doubles with two single beds that can be pushed together, and a folding adult bed can be added; some take two extra beds, which the site calls crowded. There is no cooking in the kitchenettes, and no dishes or cutlery in the rooms. Towels are for the room only: guests bring their own for the pool.
Read from yahel-tour.co.il on 2026-10-05. Prices and free rooms on its booking page
Your stay
| Check-in | 15:00 |
|---|---|
| Check-out | 11:00 |
Special requests are arranged with the reservations office, and payment is settled before entering the room.
- Meals: Breakfast in the kibbutz dining room; lunch on weekdays and a Friday-night dinner by bookingBreakfast, a dairy buffet, is served from 8:00 to 10:00, and packed breakfasts can be ordered for an early start. Lunch, a meat buffet, is served Sunday to Thursday from 12:00 to 14:00; the kitchen is closed at midday on Friday and Saturday. Every Friday night there is a festive dinner with the members of the kibbutz, with meat and fish dishes, a salad bar, free wine and vegetarian and vegan options.
- Pool: Yes
- Families: The 15 Tamar rooms, in five sets of three bedrooms with connecting doors and a shared entrance, take an extended family
- Cancellation: Weekend bookings: free up to 7 days before arrival, then 50%, and in full within two days or for a no-show. Midweek: free up to 3 days, then 50%, and in full within 24 hours. Holidays and August: free up to two weeks before, then the first night's price.
As published on yahel-tour.co.il, read 2026-10-05.
Photos
On its Facebook
For illustration: the trade, not Maayan BaMidbar itself. Its own pictures are on Instagram
Location
Kibbutz Yahel, off Road 90, Yahel
- Bus: Nearest stop 143 mlines 23
- Parking: Accessible parking listedIts site says the car park is close to the rooms, with a signposted disabled bay in the guests' car park.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-05.
Questions
About Maayan BaMidbar
- Its own website and social pagesThe rooms and the rules on this page come from the business's own site.
InstagramFacebookyahel-tour.co.il
Maayan BaMidbar is a guest house at Kibbutz Yahel, off Road 90 in Yahel, in the Southern District.
It has 4 kinds of room.
Check-in is at 15:00 and check-out at 11:00. Special requests are arranged with the reservations office, and payment is settled before entering the room. Meals: breakfast in the kibbutz dining room; lunch on weekdays and a Friday-night dinner by booking.
The nearest bus stops are יהל (143 m), צומת יהל (394 m). Its site says the car park is close to the rooms, with a signposted disabled bay in the guests' car park.
Its site does not say that its dining room is kosher and shows no certificate, and the Ministry of Religious Services' kashrut portal, read on 5 October 2026, lists no supervised business in Yahel. It is listed as wheelchair accessible on yahel-tour.co.il.
Hevel Eilot Regional Council does not publish its business licence register online, so the licence could not be checked.
'מעיין במדבר' – חדרי אירוח באווירה כפרית ונינוחה בקיבוץ יהל. בלב ה'עמק האדום', בערבה הדרומית, כ- 65 ק"מ מצפון לאילת.The public registers a directory should check and usually does not. A blank is reported as a blank.
- Kosher certificate
- Its site does not say that its dining room is kosher and shows no certificate, and the Ministry of Religious Services' kashrut portal, read on 5 October 2026, lists no supervised business in Yahel. yahel-tour.co.il2026-10-05
- Accessibility statement
- Listed as wheelchair accessible yahel-tour.co.il2026-10-05
- Companies Registrar
- Its privacy page says the site is run by Kibbutz Yahel and names no company. A kibbutz is a cooperative society, which the Companies Registrar does not list. yahel-tour.co.il2026-10-05
- Municipal business licence
- Businesses in Yahel are licensed by the Hevel Eilot Regional Council. The business licensing section of its site sets out the licensing law, the occupation groups of the licensing order, the uniform specifications, the bodies that give approvals, the fee, the forms and a licensing guide, but it publishes no list of licensed businesses, and none is on data.gov.il. eilot.org.il2026-10-05
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| Field | Value | Source | Read on | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | מעיין במדבר / Maayan BaMidbar | yahel-tour.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Address | Kibbutz Yahel, off Road 90 | yahel-tour.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 30.083912, 35.129825 (the pin of the lodging's lobby, as the sushi bar in it set it on the regional council's business board) | eilot.org.il | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | Reservations office 08-635-7967 | yahel-tour.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Website | yahel-tour.co.il | yahel-tour.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Logo | Its own icon, from yahel-tour.co.il | yahel-tour.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Check-in and check-out | Check-in 15:00, check-out 11:00. | yahel-tour.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Meals | Breakfast in the kibbutz dining room; lunch on weekdays and a Friday-night dinner by booking | yahel-tour.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Cancellation | Weekend bookings: free up to 7 days before arrival, then 50%, and in full within two days or for a no-show. Midweek: free up to 3 days, then 50%, and in full within 24 hours. Holidays and August: free up to two weeks before, then the first night's price. | yahel-tour.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Rooms | 4 kinds of room | yahel-tour.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| What happens here | Shabbat dinner with the kibbutz | yahel-tour.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | None published | yahel-tour.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | a signposted disabled parking bay in the guests' car park, a step-free path to the lobby, reception and dining room, an accessible reception desk with a hearing system, accessible toilets in the lobby and the dining room, and one accessible guest room with an accessible shower and toilet | yahel-tour.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Parking | Its site says the car park is close to the rooms, with a signposted disabled bay in the guests' car park. | yahel-tour.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | יהל 143 m; צומת יהל 394 m; צומת יהל 424 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | Its privacy page says the site is run by Kibbutz Yahel and names no company. A kibbutz is a cooperative society, which the Companies Registrar does not list. | yahel-tour.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Business licence | Businesses in Yahel are licensed by the Hevel Eilot Regional Council. The business licensing section of its site sets out the licensing law, the occupation groups of the licensing order, the uniform specifications, the bodies that give approvals, the fee, the forms and a licensing guide, but it publishes no list of licensed businesses, and none is on data.gov.il. | eilot.org.il | Fact, shown | |
| The owners' own words | Quoted from yahel-tour.co.il | yahel-tour.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Photographs | 2 licensed | instagram.com | Linked, not copied |
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