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The Negeb. Graziela Tanaka and Tim Sonbuchner. The Geography. Part of the Great Rift extending from the Dead Sea to Elath on the Red Sea coast. South - the Judean Mountains, the Dead Sea and the ‘Arabah.
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The Negeb Graziela Tanaka and Tim Sonbuchner
The Geography • Part of the Great Rift extending from the Dead Sea to Elath on the Red Sea coast. • South - the Judean Mountains, the Dead Sea and the ‘Arabah. • West - the boarder runs along the international boundaries between Egypt and Israel. • Area - It forms a large triangle area of 12,500 square kilometers. • Regions – coastal plain in the NW, a central plateau, a mountainous area in the South central part, and a Valley in the East. • It comprises more than one half of Israel's land area. • Major cities – Beersheba, Dimona, Arad, and Elat.
Rainfall - varies from 300 to 100 mm of rainfall per year. Temperature - from 23* F (winter) to 100* F (summer) As moving from South east to north and west, the ground becomes more even, the soil more fertile and the rainfall increases. Climate
Subsistance • North in the Beersheba plain is fertile loess; irrigation is necessary for agriculture. • Agricultural goods - barley, wheat, and citrus fruit. • Mineral extraction - phosphates, copper, clay, bromine, and natural gas • The Bedouins depend on herds of camels and sheeps.
Population • The Negev is a very sparsely populated area • Most of the population is concentrated in the northern part and mainly on the relatively fertile Beersheba plain, which because of its ecological conditions is a center of turbulence. • Continuo settlements occur along the great riverbeds in the northern Negeb. • On the other parts of the Negeb a great part of the populations is of Bedouins.
Historic Background • pre-Christian - Semitic tribes. • 100BC – 100 AD – Nabatean period • 4th and 5th century AD Byzantine rule • 7th century AD – Arab conquest of the region • After 7th century - occupied basically by the Bedouins, the nomadic inhabitants of the desert • 20th century - development of the desert began with the establishment of several kibbutzim in the mid-1940s and accelerated after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948