Place-IL is set to launch a program that aims to create hundreds of jobs in the Western Negev region over the next 3-4 years.
It was the largest thwarting of a smuggling operation on the Jordanian border, with 137 weapons and 250 ammunition cartridges seized.
According to the Knesset Research and Information Center 21% of the schools in the Bedouin sector in the Negev have no protection at all.
In 1943, KKL-JNF assisted in purchasing land in the Negev, and three years later, eleven kibbutzim were founded.
The Bedouin population was massacred violently on October 7, as many farmers who went to milk cows in the early morning hours were murdered and kidnapped.
For years, the "Israel for the Negev" association has cried out and sharply criticized the functioning of the intelligence and the military in everything related to the Negev.
Building on two decades of partnership with Israel’s south, Jewish National Fund-USA quickly stepped in to provide emergency assistance and the promise to rebuild.
Previous missile launches from Yemen by the Houthis were intercepted over the Red Sea by previous Arrow system launches.