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Prawer Plan to displace Bedouin
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Authorities start process of replacing Bedouin town with a Jewish one
Israel moved the residents to the plot of land they lives on today. Decades later, the state wants to displace them again — to build a Jewish town on the ruins of their homes. Israeli police detained five people Sunday protesting the impending displacement of Umm el-Hiran, an “unrecognized” Bedouin village in southern Israel on top of which authorities…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
July 31, 2016
100k Bedouin Israelis couldn’t watch Netanyahu’s ‘apology’ — they don’t have electricity
In a video shot in his office, Israel’s prime minister apologizes to the country’s Arab citizens for inciting against them. But a large portion of them couldn’t watch it — they live in ‘unrecognized villages’ that Israel refuses to connect to basic infrastructure like electricity, and the internet. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published a video addressing the country’s Arab…
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Mairav Zonszein
July 27, 2016
Israel demolishes Bedouin village al-Araqib for 100th time
Al-Araqib is one of 35 ‘unrecognized’ villages in Israel that authorities refuse to provide with water, electricity or basic infrastructure. Israeli security forces demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib for the 100th time Wednesday morning. It was the second demolition during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, taking place while residents were fasting. The first…
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Mairav Zonszein
June 29, 2016
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New Jewish settlements planned ‘on top of’ Bedouin villages
The Israeli government approves a plan for five new settlements in the Negev/Naqab. Rights group says the plan, like Israel’s overall policy regarding its Bedouin citizens, is discriminatory. The Israeli government on Sunday approved a plan for five new Jewish settlements to be built in the Negev (Naqab) in the south of Israel. The plan,…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
November 23, 2015
Israel demolishes Bedouin village of Al Araqib — for the 90th time
Things have been quiet in the Negev lately. So the authorities decided to take advantage of this period of relative calm and, while everybody’s attention was elsewhere, sent the bulldozers to destroy the unrecognized Bedouin village of Al Araqib — for the 90th time. By Avi Blecherman Bulldozers returned to the Israeli Bedouin village of Al…
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+972 Magazine
October 28, 2015
What to expect from Netanyahu’s fourth government
The new government, which could survive longer than most observers expect, intends to resume the implementation of the Prawer Plan, aimed to force the Bedouin Palestinian population in the “unrecognized villages” into a narrow territory. Benjamin Netanyahu’s fourth government was sworn in in the nick of time. Due to last-minute controversies over cabinet positions, President Reuven Rivlin…
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Noam Sheizaf
May 15, 2015
Supreme Court gives al-Araqib the right to fight for its land
As far as the state was concerned, not only do the indigenous people of the Negev have no right to land, they didn’t even have the right to argue in court that they do. The Supreme Court rejects that position. By Michal Rotem For years, the battleground of the Negev Bedouin in Israel has existed…
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+972 Magazine
April 13, 2015
WATCH: Living in the shadow of the Prawer Plan
Following a series of high-profile protests that seemingly ended one iteration of the Prawer Plan, nobody — especially those who would be most affected — knows where the plan to displace tens of thousands of Bedouin Israelis stands today. Social TV visits two unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev, Al-Araqib and Alsira, to see how…
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Social TV
June 26, 2014
Sweeping the sand out of the desert: From Verwoerd to Prawer
The Prawer-Begin Plan was shelved. But the idea that you can forcefully transfer an indigenous population and determine where it can legally reside — looks and smells like a plan pulled from the dusty drawer of Hendrik Verwoerd, architect of Apartheid South Africa. And that didn’t work out so well. By Hilla Dayan Sadly, it was…
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Haokets
December 29, 2013
Prawer Plan may not be shelved after all
Ex-general overseeing implementation of bill says he has not received any instructions to halt legislation process. The Prawer Plan may not be shelved after all. Just four days after the co-author of the proposed law, Benny Begin, announced the halting of the bill that would see the internal displacement of some 40,000 Bedouin in the…
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Mairav Zonszein
December 16, 2013
What’s next for Bedouin in a post-Prawer Israel?
The cancellation of the Prawer Plan is a victory for committed protestors. But how did this happen, and what does it mean for the Bedouin living in unrecognized villages who will wake up to a new reality? The “Stop Prawer Plan” campaigners can take this evening off and celebrate their enormous success in halting the Prawer…
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Haggai Matar
December 12, 2013
Allow me to rain on the Prawer parade
So the Israeli government is scrapping the Prawer Bill. Please allow me to rain on the parade. A few months ago many on the Left celebrated when the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a law allowing the indefinite detention of asylum seekers. This week, circumventing the court’s decision, the government passed a new law allowing the…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
December 12, 2013
Bill to displace Israel’s Bedouin to be scrapped, Prawer architect says
The Bill for Arranging Bedouin Settlement in the Negev, more commonly known as the Prawer Plan, has been scrapped, former minister and drafter of the plan Benny Begin announced at a press conference in Tel Aviv on Thursday (Haaretz report). The bill, first introduced in 2011, is a government plan to forcibly relocate some 40,000…
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Mairav Zonszein
December 12, 2013
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