» Eilot (Hebrew: אילות) shouldn't be confused with the nearby city of Eilat (Hebrew: אילת). Eilot 's the southernmost kibbutz in Israel, located in the Arabah valley, near the border with Jordan and just north of the resort town of Eilat and the Red Sea. It was established in 1963 and named for a verse in the I Kings 9:26: "And King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-Geber, which's beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of… (More on Eilot)