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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 ...
Al-Sayyid or al-Sayed (Arabic: السيد; Hebrew: א-סייד) is a Bedouin village in Israel. Located in the Negev desert between Arad and Beersheba and just south of Hura, it falls under the jurisdiction of al-Kasom Regional Council. In 2022 the village's population was 6,498. [1]
The Bedouin originated in the Syrian Desert [19] and Arabian Desert but spread across the rest of the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa after the spread of Islam. [20] The English word bedouin comes from the Arabic badawī, which means "desert-dweller", and is traditionally contrasted with ḥāḍir, the term for sedentary people. [21]
Umm al-Hiran (Arabic: أم الحيران; Hebrew: אום אל-חיראן) was a Bedouin village settled by Arab-Israeli citizens of the Abu Alkian tribe located in the Wadi Atir area of the Negev desert in southern Israel. Located near Hura, the village was established in 1956 and is one of 46 unrecognized Bedouin villages in Israel. In ...
The Azazima or Azazme/ 'Azazmeh/al-Azazmeh (Arabic: العزازمة) are a Bedouin tribe whose grazing territory used to be the desert around the wells at El Auja and Bir Ain on the border between Israel and Egypt. During the 19th century the 'Azazme fought as allies with the Tarabin in their war against the Tiyaha.
Some Bedouin insist on remaining in unrecognized villages in the hope of retaining their traditions and customs. A newly built school in al-Sayyid. Many of the unrecognized Bedouin communities were created in the 1950s when the Israeli army resettled Bedouin from the Sinai desert.
The village lies on the 200mm RPA (rainfall per annum) line drawn by Israeli meteorologists on the basis of a schema developed by Wladimir Köppen to define cultivable land in the desert. Two archives were established to document the local Bedouin's rights to their land, one by Nūri al-‘Uqbi and another by Israeli geographer Oren Yiftachel .
Tel Arad (Arabic: تل عراد) is an unrecognized Bedouin village, located north-west of the town Arad, with a population of 1,700 residents. [when?] The original residents of the area were the Jahalin tribe who were transferred by the state [which?] in 1948, and reside in the area of Mishor Edomim.