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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

Prawer Plan

Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi attends a Knesset committee meeting, October 26, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 9, 2016, 5:14 pm
Israeli gets 4 months in jail for hurling hot tea at Arab MK
Defendant requests leniency while entering plea bargain; Ahmad Tibi, his victim in the 2013 attack, slams light sentence
By ToI Staff
Jewish Home lawmaker Uri Ariel at a press conference in Jerusalem on January 11, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 12, 2015, 1:08 pm
Debate on Bedouin resettlement put on hold
Activists demand permanent shelving of proposal as minister Uri Ariel postpones proceedings on Prawer Plan
By Avi Lewis
Arab Israelis and Bedouins protest at Beersheba city hall against the Israeli court's recent decision to evacuate the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran on June 11, 2015. (Talucho/Flash90)
June 11, 2015, 7:31 pm
Hundreds protest planned demolition of Bedouin village
Activists, lawmakers demonstrate against Supreme Court ruling allowing the state to build Jewish town atop Umm al-Hiran
By Tamar Pileggi
Members of the Joint (Arab) List in the Knesset, January 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 10, 2015, 8:09 pm
Bedouin town under threat, lawmakers powwow to stave off bulldozers
After court decision to allow demolition of Atir-Um Hiran, Joint (Arab) List MKs discuss making fight international and catalyzing street to battle plan
By Elhanan Miller
An unrecognized Bedouin village in the northern Negev (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash 90)
May 7, 2015, 6:29 pm
Activists call ‘Day of Rage’ over plan to raze Bedouin village
Israeli Arabs will demonstrate against Supreme Court ruling allowing the state to build Jewish city atop Umm al-Hiran
By Tamar Pileggi
Joint List head Ayman Odeh, in white shirt, and Israeli left-wing MP Dov Khenin, on right, march alongside several dozen protesters in the Bedouin village of Wadi al-Naam on March 26, 2015. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)
March 26, 2015, 3:41 pm
Joint Arab List sets out on protest march for Bedouin rights
Knesset’s third-largest party calls for recognition of southern villages; will reach president’s office Sunday
By Lazar Berman
Illustrative: The Bedouin town of Rahat in the northern Negev. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
January 19, 2015, 10:28 pm
Four arrested in Rahat anti-police protests
Tensions rise in Bedouin town after two die in clashes with police; advocacy group calls general strike in Arab communities
By ToI Staff
January 19, 2015, 4:48 pm
Arabs call protest strike after Bedouins killed by police
Rahat mayor urges Netanyahu ‘wise up’ after a second man dies during clashes with police in the city
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Israeli Arab journalist Majd Kayyal (screen capture: YouTube)
April 17, 2014, 10:03 pm
Journalist denies contact with foreign agents in Lebanon
Majd Kayyal, released to house arrest Thursday afternoon, is suspected of meeting with Hezbollah operatives
By Aron Dónzis and ToI Staff
Israeli Arab journalist Majd Kayyal (screen capture: YouTube)
April 17, 2014, 1:53 pm
Israeli Arab journalist held after visiting Lebanon
Majd Kayyal, released to house arrest Thursday afternoon, is suspected of meeting with Hezbollah agents
By Aron Dónzis
Jeffrey Levine, the new president of the JNF. (photo credit: courtesy image)
March 9, 2014, 6:00 am
For JNF president, time is right to build on sand
Jeffrey Levine, on his 1st visit to Israel since taking the reins 6 months ago, touts Negev projects and JNF treatment of Bedouin
By Debra Kamin
A Bedouin boy rides a donkey in the village of Umm al-Hiran, in the Negev, December 19, 2013. (Photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
February 13, 2014, 3:19 pm
Israel’s next major land dispute brews in the Negev desert
The $300 million, five-year Prawer Plan to resolve Bedouin land claims, opposed on both sides, will soon be welded into law. It’s unlikely to be the end of the matter
By Mitch Ginsburg
A demolished house in an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev, December 2010 (photo credit: Jorge Novominsky/Flash90)
January 7, 2014, 3:25 pm
Diplomats on bus pelted with rocks in Negev
Foreign Ministry employees and ambassadors attacked while touring Bedouin communities
By Spencer Ho
Yair Shamir in 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 5, 2014, 5:42 pm
Agriculture minister takes over Bedouin resettlement issue
Yair Shamir says he will address ‘the complex reality on the ground,’ aims for Negev renewal
By ToI Staff
Police and protesters clash at a rally where around 1,200 demonstrators gathered in the southern Israeli town of Hura during a protest against the government's plan to resettle some 30,000 Bedouin residents of the Negev desert. November 30, 2013. (Photo credit: Flash90)
January 3, 2014, 9:52 am
Rural development ministry to oversee Bedouin resettlement
Minister Yair Shamir, considered less conciliatory than predecessor Begin, to oversee government’s Bedouin policy
By Adiv Sterman
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