Negev Desert
Changes in rules of engagement come after approval from military chief of staff, legal advisers • Soldiers obligated to fire at legs of suspects.
“We have spoken about investing in the [area], and here it is happening on the ground,” says Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
Bennett announces $160.8 million Negev assistance package
The funds will go to education, employment, reducing wage gaps, healthcare, transportation and more, says Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
Zenab Grabia didn’t know any female ceramic artists in her community, until she became one herself.
Israelis think of the desert area as its “Wild West,” a place where sovereignty is more honored in the breach, and where concerns center on crime and national security. For the government, the biggest challenge is bringing to heel unregulated Bedouin building on state land.
Mansour Abbas pushes back against outgoing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s accusation that the incoming government has ‘’sold the Negev to the Bedouin.”
The second-largest Israeli cyber company trading on Nasdaq plans to recruit more than 200 employees in Israel in 2021.
Industry representatives, content experts, innovation fans and students convene to come up with solutions to decrease environmental impacts.
From a hidden desert lake and hot springs to an ancient fortress and a bright pink church, the Jewish state is full of surprises.
The figurine is an amulet that was believed to protect children or increase fertility, according to archaeologists, who say only one other exists in the National Treasures collection.
Alumni of nonprofit organization Desert Stars sprang into action after seeing a social-media post from the two Bedouin youth who caused the damage.
“We want to position the Negev as a world center for desert-tech solutions” says the head of an innovation community arising in the southern city.
