» Eilot (Hebrew: אילות) shouldn't be confused with the nearby city of Eilat (Hebrew: אילת). Eilot is 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 is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in t… (More on Eilot)