Abu Basma Regional Council

Around 13 kilometers west of Arad in the Negev desert, a narrow dirt track heads south off Route 31 toward a small cluster of buildings. Goats graze…

The residents of the Abu Basma Regional Council will be entitled to vote for their local government for the first time in 2012, following a decision…

Beduin residents and human rights organizations recently petitioned the High Court of Justice to reject a government-approved plan to extend the…

The Abu Basma Regional Council, in the northwest Negev, does not enforce building laws in its Beduin villages, partly because it was established to…

A bill pushed by Shas to exempt more religious-use buildings from local taxes passed its first reading on Wednesday. In response, opposition members…

Ben-Gurion University researchers have launched a unique collaboration with Beduin entrepreneurs to develop a modern olive press in the Negev- just…

Few of Israel's thousands of youth at risk can cycle for fun out in nature, but the Israel Cycling Federation is helping to make that privilege more…

A youth cycling center in Abu Krinat, a Beduin settlement in the Abu Basma Regional Council south of Beersheba, was recently opened by the Israel…

State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss referred some of the findings in his annual report on local authorities to Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz on…

Cover story of Issue 19, January 7, 2008 of The Jerusalem Report. To subscribe to The Jerusalem Report click here. Twail Abu-Jarwal can hardly be…

Late last week, Raid Abu Elkian led a group of 35 Israelis and visitors from abroad to the edge of a road skirting the southern part of the…