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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]
The Roman province "Palaestina Salutaris" In accordance with the population distribution, both the Romans [16] [17] and the early Arabs [18] organized the region territorially in such a way that the Negev was not grouped with Palestine, but rather with the rest of the Sinai Peninsula and parts of what is now southwestern Jordan and the northwestern Hejaz.
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]
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.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. General view of one of the unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev Desert of Israel, January 2008 Unrecognized Bedouin villages in Israel are rural Bedouin communities in the Negev and the Galilee which the Israeli government does not recognize as legal. They are often referred to as ...
The Negev region, situated in the southern part of present-day Israel, has a long and varied history that spans thousands of years.Despite being predominantly a semi-desert or desert, it has historically almost continually been used as farmland, pastureland, and an economically significant transit area.
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He says the family later bought the land from Bedouin tribes that controlled the area. [3] After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Israel began to displace the Bedouin of the Negev. By 1953, 90% of the roughly 100,000 Bedouin in the northern Negev were expelled. According to Eyal Weizman, the refugees moved to Gaza and the West Bank. The Bedouin ...