By Ari Briggs – Jerusalem Post May 5th, 2013  Last Thursday TV personality Avri Gilad went on a trip to the Northern Negev with Regavim – an independent, professional research institute & policy planning think tank involved in protecting Israel’s National Lands. So disturbed by what he saw on that trip, he returned and immediately penned [...]

The key sentence for our work in the Negev is “to bring the State back to the Negev”. We believe that sovereignty is not a theoretical matter and if it is not enforced – it doesn’t exist. Consequently, we believe that the key to changing the situation in the Negev and to solving the conflict [...]

  Scheme to recognize tribal ownership of large Negev tracts includes sites that are home to army bases and security facilities Times of Israel  - February 7, 2013 By STUART WINER   A recently approved plan to transfer ownership of large tracts of land in the Negev to Bedouin ownership includes areas that are being used for army [...]

  By MICHAEL FREUND 30/01/2013  Under no circumstances should tens of thousands of dunams of publicly-owned land be turned over to private individuals simply because they assert it is theirs without proof to substantiate their claims. Regavim, an independent research institute which has been among the few to raise the alarm over the future of [...]

• By Betzalel Smotrich  Published in the Jerusalem Post – 30th January 2013 In whose interest? On Sunday, in a move both grave and alarming, the Cabinet, by a vote of 16 for, 3 against and 1 abstention, approved far-reaching changes to the legislation dealing with the reorganization of Beduin settlement in the Negev. It [...]

Amnon Levy on his “True Faces” TV show with the help of Regavim exposes the Bedouin gangs in the Negev. He does show some so-called “mistreated” Bedouins who seem so desperate that they have to turn to crime. However he doesn’t show the extremely wealthy Bedouin living off their life of crime. In any case, [...]

  Video shows Bedouin thieves in ATVs driving freely among IDF tanks in Negev military zones.   By Gil Ronen Elements within the defense establishment suspect that Bedouin from the Negev relayed information to Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza during Operation Pillar of Defense,according to Maariv. It is believed that the Bedouin roamed about in [...]

Bir Hadaj residents angered by Israeli law enforcement efforts to stop their illegal building go on a rampage and burn down the neighbouring kibbutz barn. Estimated damage $500,000. Monday morning, 12th November 2012, Israel Land Authority inspectors, covered by a large force of police tried to enter Bir Hadaj to give out demolition orders on [...]

FORUM, ON-SITE VISIT TACKLE SHARP EROSION OF CONTROL IN THE SOUTH (Jerusalem, Israel) – The non-profit research institute Regavim conducted two events over the Sukkot week focusing on the sharp rise of squatting and illegal settling of vast tracts of land in the country’s Negev region. An emergency public forum, under the title of “Which [...]

Meir Deutsch – Regional Director, Regavim speaking about the challenges in the Negev and solutions to these issues at the Regavim Public Forum held Sukkot 2012 as part of the Emergency Campaign to Save the Negev.