Adanim Youth Village is a youth village

Youth village

A youth village is a boarding school model first developed in Mandate Palestine in the 1930s to care for groups of children and teenagers fleeing the Nazis...

 in the northwestern Negev

Negev

The Negev is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The Arabs, including the native Bedouin population of the region, refer to the desert as al-Naqab. The origin of the word Neghebh is from the Hebrew root denoting 'dry'...

 desert of southern Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. Located close to Beit Kama

Beit Kama

Beit Kama is a kibbutz in the northern Negev desert in Israel. It belongs to the jurisdiction of Bnei Shimon Regional Council.-Background and Geography:...

, it is within the borders of Bnei Shimon Regional Council

Bnei Shimon Regional Council

The Bnei Shimon Regional Council , is a regional council in the northern Negev in the south of Israel. Most of its territory lies north of Beersheba and the rest bounds Beersheba on the west and east sides as well. The eastern border of this territory straddles the Green Line.There are 13...

.

The village was established in 2007 and houses a boarding school

Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...

 catering for around 60 pupils age 12 to 18 with mental and emotional

Emotional and behavioral disorders

Emotional and behavioral disorders is a broad category which is used commonly in educational settings, to group a range of more specific perceived difficulties of children and adolescents...

 difficulties. It is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Welfare and Social Services.