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This chapter presents a brief history of the Negev Bedouin and their relationship to, and use of, the land, beginning 500 years ago (1516–1918) when Palestine was part of Syria (Bilad al-Asham), ruled by the Ottoman Empire. The three land regimes examined are the Ottoman, the British Mandate, and the Israeli. Prominence is given to the Ottoman Land Laws of 1851, 1858, and 1860; the British Land Ordinance of 1920 and 1921; and the beginning of the application of cadastral methods to land registration based on precise measurements and maps rather than on verbal description of boundaries in 1928. The Israeli land regime after 1948 and the reinterpretations of Mawat (dead) lands as state property are examined. The context for Israeli territorial expansion is also set forth.
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Referred to as al Nakba—the Catastrophe—by the Arabs.
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Demographic statistics about the Bedouin population are highly contested and different statistics are used by different groups (even different government publications vary) to promote different agendas. This book uses the Statistical Abstract of Israel, 2014, Central Bureau of Statistics, relating to the 2013 end-of-year data.
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Shmueli, D.F., Khamaisi, R. (2015). Negev (in Hebrew) or Naqab (in Arabic) Bedouin. In: Israel’s Invisible Negev Bedouin. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16820-3_5
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