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Weekly Newsletter 21.6.13

20.06.2013

Invitation to the Opening of the Photo-Exhibition “Recognized”– a Selection of Photographs by the Children of A-Sir

We invite you to the exhibition “Recognized”, a collection of photos taken by the children of the Bedouin unrecognized village of A-Sir, near Be’er-Sheva Prison. The children participated in a photography project which documented the life in the village, held by Negev Coexistence Forum in cooperation with the village’s committee and volunteer photographers during January 2013.

The opening will take place on Wednesday, June 26, at 6 pm, in the Arab-Hebrew Theatre in Jaffa – Mifratz-Shlomo St.10, Ancient Jaffa.

Speakers:

Mieke Hartmann – Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

Yosra Abo-Kaff – Project Coordinator, NCF

Tomer Applebaum – Photographer

Anas Abu-Dahabes – The representation of Bedouin in the media

Gadi Algazi – Prawer Plan, a challenge to a joint struggle

The exhibition will be presented until the end of July.

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Upcoming Events at the Multaka-Mifgash

This week at the Multaka-Mifgash: Screening of the movie ‘Turbulence’ and a discussion with the director, Roni Livne, and the researcher, Dr. Ariel Livne.

Tuesday, June 25^th,  7pm, King Solomon St. 7, Be’er-Sheva

On June 10th 1982, eve of the first Lebanon war, 21 year old Dafna Carmon left a friend’s house near her home in Haifa. She was never seen alive again. Two years later, four Bedouins from a nearby village were arrested. For 27 years now they are serving a life sentence for kidnapping, rape and murder. For 27 years they have been pleading their innocence. One day in 2006 Arial Livneh gets a surprising call from Shata prison; on the other side is Camal Sbehi. Livneh, a pensioner of Israel’s General Security Service and a Doctor of Criminology, decides to dive into a labyrinth of deception, discoveries, motivations and frustrations. His 3 year long obsessive journey will take him to 1980s Haifa and through abandoned and dusty police and court archives. He will locate and meet any law man and person that knew Dafna or was somehow connected to the case. The stream of new information that he discovers raises many tough questions about the process that convicted the four Bedouins.
Can a journey to the past change the future?

Click here for the movie’s website

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Next week at the Multaka-Mifgash – A screening oftThe Movie “The Lab” and a discussion with the director, Yotam Feldman

Wednesday, July 3^rd, 7:30pm, King Solomon St. 7, Be’er-Sheva

Israel has one of the most unique weapon industries in the world. Following the 9/11 attacks, the Afghanistan war and the second Iraq war, countries all over the world are increasingly interested in the ways the Israeli army controls and deals with weapons, terror and guerrilla tactics. This film follows two private Israeli weapons businessmen, allowing the director to accompany them in their dealings. With unqiue access, we accompany them in their intimate day-to-day work, making deals, shipping weapons, inspecting armed forces overseas and ultimately exposing less obvious and more sinister truths. Both sides – seller and buyer – become partners in the creation of a future war(s). A war which creates new weapons and devices, defines new enemies and constructs a unique combination between profitable and lethal.

Click here for the movie’s website

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Protest against Prawer Plan

On May 6^th, the Ministerial Legislation Committee approved Prawer Plan, and it was decided to put it up to vote in the Knesset, which means that every moment, Prawer Plan might become an actual law.

NCF holds a protest in front of the “Administration for the Regulation of Bedouin Settlement in the Negev” offices in Be’er-Sheva (corner of Rager and Metzada St.) every Monday, at 5 pm.

We invite organizations and activists to join the protest until we’ll stop the plan.

For further details: Ofer: 050-9391299

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House demolitions in the Negev

• On June 19 2013, the village of Al-Arakib was demolished.
• On June 19 2013, a house was demolished near the Bedouin town of Lakiya.
• On June 19 2013, a house was demolished at the Bedouin recognized village of Umm-Batin.

Click here for NCF’s full list of house demolitions in the Negev

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The village of Al-Arakib was demolished for the 49 time – the struggle continues – weekly protest every Sunday

Stop house demolitions!

The village of Al-Arakib was demolished on Wednesday, June 19^th, for the 49^th time. Join the weekly protest of the village of Al-Arakib, every Sunday at 4:30 pm at Lehavim junction, in solidarity with the residents of the village, to protest against the demolition policy of the government.

Transportation from Be’er-Sheva – Ofer 050-9391299, Ofer@dukium.org