An educational community located in the south of Israel in the Negev Desert, near the border between Israel and Egypt. The Jewish Agency helped to establish Nitzana as a Zionist community to teach about the desert in experiential ways while also promoting tolerance by bringing together religious, secular and minority Jewish Israeli youth. Nitzana also acts as an absorption center every year for 100 recent Jewish immigrants from Russia, Ethiopia and the United States; these immigrants take part in a one-year program where they learn Hebrew, among other things, and are prepared to serve in the Israeli army. See “About the Nitzana Educational Community.” Jewish Agency for Israel. 30 September 2011. http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Israel/PriorityRegions/Nitzana/About.  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/nitzana