Chips Rafferty never came to Beersheba. And he definitely never visited Be’er- Sheva, ‘The Opportunity Capital of Israel’. Be’er-Sheva was the Hebrew Bible’s name for Abraham’s city and it lives again today. It means ‘Well of the Oath’. Water and wells have always determined the city’s viability. As they did nearly a century ago when Australian soldiers and their horses, the magnificent Walers, changed the course of world history.