Israel's Invisible Negev Bedouin

This Brief provides a contextual framework for exploring the settlement rights of Israel''s Bedouin population of the Negev desert, a traditionally pastoral nomadic Arab population.  In 1948, the Israeli government relocated this population from the Negev region to settlements in Siyag. The explicit aim was to control the Negev area for security purposes, sedentarize a nomadic people, and to impro...