Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality
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Weekly discussions of Prawer-Begin Plan continue at the Internal Affairs Committee of the Knesset

23.11.2013

A discussion of the “Prawer-Begin Bill”, for the regulation of Bedouin settlement in the Negev, is held every Wednesday at the Internal Affairs Committee of the Knesset. The committee, headed by MK Miri Regev of the Likud – Israel Beytenu party, has been discussing the general outlines of the bill for the last three weeks. Next week the committee will start discussing the specific articles and details of the bill.

During the discussions vigils take place outside the Knesset.

On Sunday, November 24^th, the committee is supposed to visit the Naqab, but according to the plan the committee published it will visit Rahat, Laquie and the newly recognized villages Al-Sayyed and Wadi Rowien (Molada). The Naqab Arabs steering committee declared a general strike on the same day, since the committee will not meet any of the Arab Bedouin leaders from the Naqab and some of the Knesset members from the left will not participate in the visit.