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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]
At HaMovil Junction in the Lower Galilee, not far from Nazareth, there is a memorial to the Bedouin soldiers of the IDF fallen since 1948, 230 of them by 2022. [1] The Monument to the Bedouin Soldier (sometimes translated a Fighter or Warrior), established at a site close to Bedouin and other Israeli Arab towns, was inaugurated on Independence Day in 1993 by then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. [1]
The rescue from Gaza of hostage Qaid Farhan Alkadi, who belongs to the Bedouin community in Israel, has put the focus on a minority group that has largely existed on the margins of Israeli society ...
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".
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.
Israel has begun demolishing a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank for the second time in three months, in what a rights group called an attempt to displace an entire Palestinian community ...
An Israeli hostage rescued from Gaza returned to a hero’s welcome tinged with a bitter reality: Much of the small village he calls home – Khirbet Karkur -- is targeted for demolition. Qaid ...