The region, which is part of the Israeli Negev desert and borders both the Gaza Strip and the Egyptian Sinai peninsula, hopes that the withdrawal will invigorate its aspirations for development.
The remote area received its first boost 24 years ago when it absorbed the bulk of Israelis evacuated from settlements in the Sinai as part of the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt.
Now, they hope that many of the Gaza settlers will also choose to make the Negev desert their home, increasing its population and financial support from the government for the region.
They also hope the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip will step up trade with the Palestinian Authority.
Uri Ne'emati, the chairman of the Eshkol regional council, says the council plans to convert Israel's Sufa crossing to the southern Gaza Strip into a major terminal for agricultural goods such as dairy, poultry, flowers, fruits and vegetables.
Dani Barth, of Kibbutz Sufa, an Israeli communal farm located at the crossing, says that along with the regional council his kibbutz is working with the Israeli government to upgrade the crossing to an industrial site complete with packing sheds and refrigeration rooms.
Pending security considerations, the terminal will also provide direct access for Palestinian workers from the southern Gaza Strip to work places in nearby Israeli communities, he says.
With the disengagement less than two months away, these days small town entrepreneurs are also frantically preparing to receive a barrage of some 2,000 foreign journalists who will spend large amounts of money on accommodation, food and communications.
The price for a room or apartment has sky-rocketed to between 1,000 to 2,000 U.S. dollars per person per month, the equivalent of major cosmopolitan centres like Tel Aviv or even New York.
Local bars and pubs have already announced extended hours for the onslaught of foreign beer guzzlers.
Meanwhile, local communities have already set aside lands, including two sandy sites that are being prepared for 100 trailers each, in the hope of absorbing some of the more than 1,700 families slated for evacuation from the Gaza Strip in mid-August.
However, Tovi Shur of the Eshkol Regional Council admits "right now we really don't have any evacuees, so its a bit of a problem". So far, very few of the settlers have filled in application forms to relocate to the region.
The competition for the settlers is fierce and unlike Nitsan, a site directly north of the Gaza Strip where many plan to move, the Eshkol region has no beach and is farther from central Israel.
In addition, fewer than one-fourth of the evacuees depend on agriculture for their livelihoods.
In the Ein Ha'bsor community Eliezer Arad recalls his evacuation from the Israeli Sinai of Sadot, and the difficulties in relocating to a new home.
"It may not have been the most easy thing, but we are fine," he says in an effort to persuade Gaza's settlers to follow in his footsteps.
Pointing at the prosperous landscape, he says: "When you have will and dedication one can rehabilitate himself... this community is proof there is life after a disengagement."
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