• The Bedouin judiciary in the Negev: lands, villages, and rights.

Time Axis - Important Events - Lands and Bedouin Villages in the Negev

1858: Legislation of the Ottoman Land Order. (With this, the Ottomans had no authority over most of the

Negev)

1871: Determination of the boundary between Palestine and Egypt

1891: Tribal Boundaries Report.

1901: The establishment of the modern city of Beersheba and the beginning of partial Ottoman control over the Negev.

1913: Jamama lands purchased by a Jewish group and registered in the Tabu.

1920: Survey (“Hafar Ha’Hasrat Heishov”) of the Bedouin tribes and their lands.

1921: The British Mawat (Territories) Order.

1921: Churchill's statement - The continuation of Bedouin rule.

1922: The royal decree and its council - the establishment of tribal courts in the Negev.

1929: The (British) High Court sends an appeal for a land case to the tribal court.

1931: The British Census describes the Bedouin land and housing system.

1940: 24 Bedouin villages appear in the British Mandate records (government gazette)

1945: 40 Bedouin residential areas appear in country statistics

1949-1948: The year of the Nakba - most of the Bedouin villages destroyed, 80% of the Bedouin became refugees.

1951: 12 clans expelled from the western Negev and gathered in the Al-Siyag area

1966: Military rule abolished.

1969: The establishment of Tel Sheba as the beginning of the “Seven Towns” program.

1971: Beersheba region announces land settlement, Bedouins file 3,220 lawsuits.

1996: recognition of the first Bedouin village of Tarabin; He broke the "seven towns" strategy.

1997: Establishment of the Unrecognized Village Council

1998-2007: Slow recognition of ten villages that promised to keep, but did not solve the problem of land and planning

2000: Agreement under the auspices of the High Court of Justice Preparing a correction of the regional plan to take into account the presence of the unrecognized villages and the positions of their representatives.

2005: The State of Israel begins a policy of counterclaims.

2007: A new regional plan includes recognition of only two villages.

2008: The Goldberg Commission Report recommends “recognizing villages as possible, and accepting that the Bedouins have a historical connection to their lands.

2010: Researcher Telma Duchen's report recommends creating conditions that allow villages to be recognized

2011: The Israeli government adopts the Prawer Commission's report, but does not recommend recognizing the villages.

2012: Memorandum “The Bedouin Housing Settlement Law is published and meets wide Bedouin opposition.

2012: An alternative plan by the Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages and Bimkom is presented to the Israeli government.