- Rahat, the largest Bedouin settlement (40,000 residents, with another 10,000 nearby) has only one branch bank; no other bank will open a branch there. (Haaretz)
- The Lehavim-Rahat trains station, meant to serve the 5,000 Jewish residents of the Beer Sheva suburb of Lehavim and the 40,000 Bedouin residents of Rahat, recently had the “Rahatâ€? part of the name removed at the request of the suburb’s mayor. The Rahat mayor was not even informed, and is very angry. (Ynet)
- A new documentary looks at the Bedouin in Israel, especially the tension between the “white� and “black� Bedouin. (The Jewish Exponent)
- Bedouin who were moved to Um Al-Hiran and A-Tir in the northern Negev under martial law 51 years ago are now being expelled to make way for a new Jewish town to be built. (Haaretz)
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is making a strong and so far successful effort to enroll Bedouins. (Washington Jewish Week)
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