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The Negev Bedouin (Arabic: بدْو النقب, Badwu an-Naqab; Hebrew: הבדואים בנגב , HaBedu'im BaNegev) are traditionally pastoral nomadic Arab tribes (), while some are of Sub-Saharan African descent, [7] who until the later part of the 19th century would wander between Hijaz in the east and the Sinai Peninsula in the west. [8]
Bedouin encampment in the Negev Desert Bedouin soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces. Prior to the 1948 Israeli Declaration of Independence, an estimated 65,000–90,000 Bedouins lived in the Negev desert. According to Encyclopedia Judaica, 15,000 Bedouin remained in the Negev after 1948; other sources put the number as low as 11,000. [75]
(1) Classical archaeologists, who primarily rely on building remains and period-specific pottery to reconstruct the Negev's history, believe that Bedouins largely abandoned the Negev between the 12th and 16th/18th centuries, as typical Mamluk pottery ("Handmade Ware") [46] is found almost exclusively in the northern Negev east of Rafah and in ...
Finally, most Negev Bedouin men are employed as wage laborers, not as white-collar or blue-collar workers. In the face of this fact, it often does not seem a reasonable investment to attain higher education. [9] Among the biggest obstacle to higher education for women is the physical and cultural distance of the universities from Negev Bedouin ...
Of the Bedouin population (a demographic with a semi-nomadic tradition), 50% live in unrecognised villages, and 50% live in towns built for them by the Israeli government between the 1960s and 1980s; the largest of these is Rahat. Rahat, the largest Bedouin city in the Negev. The population of the Negev is expected to reach 1.2 million by 2025.
After that, despite forming alliances with several Bedouin tribes, such as the Banu Amilah, the Banu Ghassan, the Banu Judham, and the Banu Lakhm, who were migrating from the Arabian Peninsula to the southern Negev during this period, [170] the Arab forces encountered little resistance in their Islamic expansion into Palestine beginning in AD 634.
In an 1874 list of Bedouin tribes produced by a member of the Palestine Exploration Fund survey team, the Tiyaha are described as "in the Desert of the Tih". [ 17 ] In April 1875, Lieut. Claude R. Conder , who was surveying Gaza District for the Palestine Exploration Fund, reported that part of the territory belonging to the Tiyaha included 200 ...
Ben-David and Kressel have argued that the Bedouin traditional market was the cornerstone for the founding of Beersheba as capital of the Negev during this period, [29]: 3 and Negev Bedouin. Anthropologist and educationalist Aref Abu-Rabia, who worked for the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture, described it as "the first Bedouin city".