Summary
From the end of the Ottoman rule a current process of forced sedentarization of the Negev Bedouin has begun, which was considerably accelerated after the founding of the State of Israel. In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, most Bedouin left to neighbouring regions. Between 1968 and 1989, Israel built seven townships in the north-east of the Negev to concentrate the remaining Bedouin population in order to sedentarize and urbanize it. About half of the population was transferred to the townships. The rest remained in unrecognized villages built spontaneously by the Bedouin without any general planning and thus lacking basic services: electricity, running water, etc. While the Israeli government promotes the abolishment of unrecognized villages, gradually recognizing some of them and subsequently improving their infrastructure or attracting their population to government-built planned townships, the Bedouin want all of them to be recognized and provided with common basic services.
Estimated to number some 170,000, out of 250,000 Israeli Bedouin (2012), they comprise 12% of the Arab citizenry of Israel. Twelve percent of Israel's total population lives in the Negev, and Negev Bedouin constitute approximately 25% percent of that number.
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