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The Negev Bedouin suffer from extreme rates of joblessness and the highest poverty rate in Israel. A 2007 Van Leer Institute study found that 66 percent of Negev Bedouin lived below the poverty line (in unrecognized villages, the figure reached 80 percent), compared 25 percent in the Israeli population. [120]
The Negev Bedouin have one of the highest rates of natural growth in the world, standing at 4–5.5% per year, [67] [68] which means doubling the population every 12–15 years. [10] So while in 1951 they numbered 12,000, in 1970 – about 25,000, in 1990 – about 87,000 people, and in 2008 – approximately 180,000.
This will require Bedouins to leave ancestral villages, cemeteries and communal life as they know it. [21] [22] [23] According to the PMO official press release, the plan is based on four main principles: Providing for the status of Bedouin communities in the Negev; Economic development for the Negev's Bedouin population;
The ethnic group with highest recorded TFR is the Bedouin of Negev. Their TFR was reported at 10.06 in 1998, and 5.73 in 2009. TFR is also very high among Haredi Jews. For Ashkenazi Haredim, the TFR rose from 6.91 in 1980 to 8.51 in 1996. The figure for 2008 is estimated to be even higher.
Most Bedouins live in the 4,700-square-mile Negev, which before Israel’s founding in 1948 was home to some 92,000 Bedouins. Only 11,000 remained after the Arab-Israeli war that followed.
The Negev was taken from the Ottoman army by British forces during 1917 and became part of Mandatory Palestine. In 1922, the Bedouin component of the population was estimated at 72,898 out of a total of 75,254 for the Beersheba sub-district. [44] The 1931 census estimated that the population of the Beersheba sub-district was 51,082. [47]
Hamas’ surprise assault killed more than 1,300 people in Israel. The vast majority were Israeli Jews, but the dead also included 15 Bedouin Arabs.
The new development towns constructed by the state in the 1980s absorbed a large proportion of the Negev Bedouin population but were unable to handle the entire Bedouin population, and their later reputation for crime and poor economy, together with a cultural preference for rural life, caused many Israeli Bedouin to shun these towns in favour ...