'Youth') is a religious kibbutz located in the northwestern Negev desert in southern Israel, near the Gaza Strip.

Alumim was established in 1966 as a border settlement with Egypt by Bnei Akiva members from a Nahal gar'in.

The infiltrators killed 22 foreign workers from Thailand and Nepal, and kidnapped 2 people, before the kibbutz's security team fought back.

Two brothers from the Israeli city Beersheba who were IDF service came to participate in the kibbutz's defense during the fighting on their own initiative and were killed.

Chores such as serving in the dining hall, guard duty at night, milking the cows at the weekend are done on a rota basis.