Reform Blueprint Negev/Save the Negev
In the Negev
the people of Israel
shall be tested

David Ben Gurion

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We abroad are used to believing that Eretz Yisrael is now almost totally desolate, a desert that is not sowed....But in truth that is not the case.
Ahad Haam, "Truth from the Land of Palestine"

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More Blueprint Negev Links


  • "Bedouin of the Negev" – A fair-minded Israeli documentary about the Bedouin that asks the question: Will government pressure on the Bedouin lead to a Bedouin Intifada? (In Hebrew)
  • Bustan's perspective on Blueprint Negev
  • Devorah Brous' open letter to the JNF
  • A selected log of news items and press releases on the Bedouin, from the International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs
  • "When an Ecological Community Is Not" – Daniel Orenstein's Haaretz article on Tnuat Or/JNF-US's Haruv community
  • History, satellite photos, video and links about A-tir and Um al-Hiran, including interviews with some of the residents
  • Bimkom's report on Givot Bar and the el-Ukbi tribe (in Hebrew)
  • A virtual tour of the unrecognized village of Derigat, created by Dukium, the Negev Coexistence Forum



    • On the so-called "JNF bill" which would allow JNF and the ILA to lease State lands only to Jews:

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