negev in English

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an arid region that forms most of southern Israel, between Beersheba and the Gulf of Aqaba, on the Egyptian border. Large areas are irrigated for agriculture and many Israeli communities have been established here.

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1. Beersheba, Hebrew Beʾer Shevaʿ, biblical town of southern Israel, now a city and the main centre of the Negev (ha-Negev) region. Beersheba Museum in Beersheba, Israel

2. Beersheba definition: a town in S Israel : commercial centre of the Negev

3. Roughly 200,000 Bedouins live in the Negev desert, with about half living in …

4. This has led to the farming of fish, shrimp and crustaceans in the Negev.

5. The Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land, Revised edition, edited by Avraham Negev, 1986, p. 199.

6. Pioneering technology is being used to breed fish in artificial lakes in the Negev desert.

7. Beersheba also spelled Beer-Sheva is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel

8. Query: tel-aviv.co.il reg-name: tel-aviv domain: tel-aviv.co.il descr: Negev Nosatzki descr: 20 Admonit St

9. The Bedouin are an indigenous people of the Negev desert in southern Israel, referred to by themselves as the Naqab

10. Beersheba definition, a city in Israel, near the N limit of the Negev desert: the southernmost city of ancient Palestine

11. Most of Israel's deposits are located in the Rotem Basin region of the northern Negev desert near the Dead Sea.

12. To the south of Beersheba was the Negev Desert, so Beersheba marked the southernmost boundary of cultivated land in Israel.

13. The Negev Desert, Israel, and the surrounding area, including the Arava Valley, receive plenty of sunshine and are generally not arable.

14. After statehood, priority was given to establishing industries in areas slated for development, among them Lachish, Ashkelon, the Negev and Galilee.

15. The Bedouin population in Israel currently numbers 210,000 persons who live in all regions of the State, most notably in the Negev

16. Tel Sheva, the mound of biblical Beersheba, is located in the northern Negev, several kilometers east of the present-day city of Be'er Sheva

17. Most of the Bedouins currently living in the Negev are thought to have migrated to the area centuries ago from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Syrian …

18. Military administrative government was in effect from 1949 to 1966 over some geographical areas of Israel having large Arab populations, primarily the Negev, Galilee, and the Triangle.

19. The Negev makes up more than 50 per cent of Israel's land area to the south of the country near it's border with Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula.

20. That is, the Bedouins of the Negev, where there is enough rainfall to sustain certain grain crops and herds, live quite differently from the Bedouins of the south-central Sinai Peninsula, who live

21. Before the founding of the State of Israel, Prime Minister to-be David Ben-Gurion saw Mampsis as the capital of the future country, which dovetailed with his dream of settling the Negev Desert.

22. Beersheba, on the northern edge of the barren Negev desert and about 75 kilometres south of Jerusalem, features in several other events of Bible history: • Abraham and his wife Sarah evicted her slave-girl Hagar and Hagar’s son Ishmael (fathered by Abraham) to wander in the wilderness.

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