Decision No. 2491 (28.10.2007) mandated that the Housing Minister appoint a committee to develop recommendations for the government, regarding policies to regulate Bedouin settlement in the Negev. In January 2008, after a thorough examination of the Goldberg Commission Report (a report designed to regulate Bedouin settlement in the Negev), the government approved Decision No. 4411 (referred to as the “Accountability Policy Proposal for Regulating Bedouin Settlement in the Negev”). This Decision called for the government to appoint a team to implement the recommendations of the Goldberg Commission Report and regulate Bedouin settlement. Minister Ehud Prawer was assigned to this team and appointed as Head of Policy Planning under the Prime Minister. On May 31, 2011, the implementation team submitted its recommendations, which have been referred to as the Prawer Plan. On September 11, 2011, the Israeli cabinet approved the Prawer Plan.
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Every Monday at 17:00 at the Teachers’ Center in Beer Sheva, there is a demonstration to oppose the Prawer Bill.
Position Papers
Position Paper: The Prawer-Begin Bill and the Forced Displacement of the Bedouin
Position Paper of the Negev Coexistence Forum Regarding the Prawer Plan
Media
The Beginning of the End for Israel’s Negev Bedouin Culture?
Negev Bedouins Mobilise Against Displacement
Systematic Displacement: Attir and Israel’s “Bedouin Problem”
Draft Law Passed to Regulate Beduin Settlement
Israeli Government Seeks to Settle Bedouin Issue Once and for All
Uprooting 30,000 Bedouin in Israel
UN panel urges Israel to shelve ‘racist’ Bedouin relocation plan
Israel plans to displace 30,000 Bedouin Israeli citizens
Bedouins get mobilized as Israel pushes them off their land (Part 1)
Bedouin seek US support against relocation plan
Thousands protest plan for relocation of Negev Bedouin
The worst day in a Bedouin’s life
Cabinet approves plan to relocate Negev Bedouin
Right, Left infuriated by plans to resettle Negev Bedouin
Nat’l security adviser to rethink plan for Negev Bedouin
Press Releases
Press Release: The Knesset Approves the Highly Devastating Prawer-Begin Bill in First Voting Round
PRESS RELEASE: NCF Position on Begin Plan
Updates and Events
Update: Prawer-Begin Bill and the Forced Displacement of the Bedouin
Just A Week After the Ministerial Committee on Legislation Approved the Prawer Plan….
UN: Forced relocation and eviction of Bedouin is unacceptable
State responds to CCPR Concluding Observations
NCF demands implementation of UN HRC’s Concluding Observations from gov’t
Forum reports back to UN human rights bodies
Praver Plan consultation meetings