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| Â | Israel's Negev Desert |
 | | Laid out before it are the settlements of Yotvata, Grofit, Ketura and Lotan, patches of green against the tawny desert earth. | | | Each lives a double life as farm and sentinel, laying claim to the land, ironically, by the ancient Arab right of occupancy. | | | At a lookout point on Mt. Hizkiyahu, the face of an Israeli soldier is a reminder of the struggle of the Jews to return to this land they have longed for across centuries. |
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http://www.rmerrillphoto.com/israelsnegevdesert
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| Â | Negev Databases |
| | This database describes also the place of the Negev in the Israeli national planning system. | | | This article is based on National pogram no. 35 (TAMA 35). | | | About domesticating the aamel, the organization of a caravan and more. |
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http://www.boker.org.il/english/negevdbases.htm
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| Â | The Desert |
| | In 1947 and 1948, when the boundaries of the Jewish and Arab states were being debated by diplomats, David Ben-Gurion made it clear the Negev must be part of the Jewish state. | | | He believed what he said and made his home there, joining Kibbutz Sde Boker in 1953. | | | In March 1949, during Israel’s War of Independence, the Israeli army vanquished the Egyptians in the desert campaign and captured the Negev for the State of Israel. |
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vie/Hillel/Desert.html
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| Â | How One Ph.D. is Opening Education to Hundreds in the Negev Desert - The Link, Spring 2001 |
| | The result is that the 120,000 Negev Bedouin are caught between the nomadic life they have essentially left behind, and a future—still painfully out of reach—that would enable them to become educated, prosperous members of a modern Israeli society. | | | For questions or comments, contact the CEHD Webmaster. | | | Upon completing his degree, Abu-Saad returned to Israel to teach at BGU. |
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http://www.education.umn.edu/alum/link/2001spring/Abu-Saad.html
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| Â | Dimona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The official reason given by the Israeli and French governments was to build a | | | Dimona is the center of the Black Hebrews, a small religious community that lives according to their own special rules. | | | Dimona was one among several "development towns" that were created in the 1950s at the initiative of David Ben-Gurion. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimona
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| Â | A Few Interesting K-12 Links |
| | A Desert Navigator - Midreshet Sde Boker (Israel) | | | Virtual Israel Experience: The Negev - The Jewish Virtual Library | | | Dimona on the Map - The CIA World FactBook |
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http://www.juliantrubin.com/explore.html
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| Â | Israel's Negev Desert |
| | Having such poor conditions, the Negev was largely undeveloped and sparsely populated during Israel's first five decades. | | | Rarely does one find a country so small with landscapes so varied as in Israel. | | | Following a visit to Palestine in 1867, Mark Twain described the Negev Desert in his book "The Innocents Abroad" as "a desolation that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action…". |
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http://www.negev.org/About/negev_desert.htm
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| Â | Negev Desert Botanical Garden |
| | Comparatively small, the Negev has had, however, an intriguing history of settlers, occupiers and passers through including Nabateans, Romans, Byzantines, Ottomans, British, Bedouin and Israelis. | | | A Negev botanical garden will also provide great opportunities for learning at secondary and primary school levels and would also be a major attraction for local people and Israeli and foreign tourists alike. | | | This will commence with meetings with the Ramat Hanegev Regional Council during April 2000. |
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http://www.benzkotz.dircon.co.uk/web.html
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| Â | RAMAT NEGEV DESERT AGRO-RESEARCH CENTER |
| | Advisers of the Israeli Extension Service are also part of the research staff. | | | Negev, Israel and several other countries’ farmers are currently using the results of the studies at the center. | | | The Ramat Negev Regional Council administrates the center, but the experiments are done not only by local researchers but also together with other scientists from Ben Gurion University, the Faculty of Agriculture of the Hebrew University, the Volcani Institute and more. |
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http://www.ramat-negev.org.il/info/mop/about.htm
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| Â | Galilee, Sea of on Encyclopedia.com |
| | However, despite the project, Israel's water supply in the late 20th cent. | | | Israel's National Water Carrier Project uses the Sea of Galilee as a reservoir for water pumped south, via the National Water Conduit, to the Negev desert for irrigation and to the coastal plain to recharge the overdrawn watertable. | | | Mineral springs, some of them hot, discharge into the lake, giving it a saline character. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/G/GalileeS1.asp
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| Â | Israeli Art : oil paintings of Ron Gang, Kibbutz Urim, Israel - contemporary art: figurative and abstract painting - ... |
| | Israel oil mandala art, Israeli and Israel politics and political thinking reality is as an onion skin to peel off to get another reality level of the world and middle east, painting, | | | categories: Israeli oil painting art of desert acacia trees, arabesque mandala, Israel desert acacia and eucalyptus groves, transcendent mandala paintings, Monet is said to have put each canvas aside, and pulled it out when the particular atmospheric/lighting effect appeared. | | | categories: Israeli oil painting art of desert acacia trees - impressionism, Monet is said to have put each canvas aside, and pulled it out when the particular atmospheric/lighting effect appeared. |
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http://www.iarc.org/~4x1mk/
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| Â | CNN.com - Israel's 'bomb in the basement' - Apr 21, 2004 |
| | Nuclear experts say it's the cornerstone of Israel's nuclear arsenal -- where the plutonium is produced for a nuclear program that Israel has never confirmed and never denied. | | | How do you regard convicted Israeli nuclear spy Mordechai Vanunu? | | | DIMONA, Israel (CNN) -- Israel's nuclear reactor was built with the help of the French more than 40 years ago near the town of Dimona in the Negev Desert. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/21/israel.vanunu.vause/index.html
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| Â | The Negev Desert |
| | The Negev (meaning "dry") makes up about 60% of the modern state of Israel (4600 sq. | | | South of the Ramon Crater, however, plants are found only in the wadis. |
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http://www.netours.com/2003/Negev.htm
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| Â | Bible Study - The Negev Desert |
| | After Judah fell to the Babylonians (see Why Babylon and King Nebuchadnezzar) in 586 B.C., Edom took over the Negev. | | | King David included the Negev in his kingdom, and when Solomon succeeded his father, he established fortresses in the area. | | | Hagar and Ishmael were exiled out into the Negev by Sarah (Genesis 21:14) |
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http://www.keyway.ca/htm2000/20000530.htm
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| Â | Sandra Scott Travel/Negev Desert |
| | From here you can hike to a Bedouin camp or explore one of the many archeological ruins that only hint at the human history that has transpired in the area. | | | Another day of adventure in the Negev Desert begins. | | | Remnants from the Canaanite, Judean, Nabatean, and Byzantine periods are waiting to be explored, including Nabatean caravansaries built 3,000 years ago, some of which grew into small towns. |
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http://www.sanscott.com/asia/negevdesert.htm
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| Â | Israel: Mordechai Vanunu to be placed under supervision but not arrest |
| | Israel& Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has decided that Mordechai Vanunu, the imprisoned opponent of the country’s nuclear programme, will be placed under state supervision after he completes an 18-year prison term in April. | | | During his work at the facility, Vanunu learned that it harboured a secret underground plutonium separation plant, which was part of Israel& nuclear bomb programme. | | | Vanunu was convicted of treason after he provided the British Sunday Times newspaper with details about the Dimona nuclear “research centre” in the Negev Desert, near Beersheba in 1986. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/mar2004/vanu-m03.shtml
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| Â | Wired News: Locust Plague Hits Israel |
| | In the Bible, locusts were the eighth of 10 plagues that God inflicted on the ancient Egyptians before Pharaoh, their leader, let the Israelites go. | | | Locusts ventured across the Negev desert as far north as the Dead Sea where farmers worried that larger numbers of insects said to be heading their way might eat through their crops. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65787,00.html?tw=newsletter_topstories_html
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| Â | Encyclopedia: Negev desert |
| | The last is the biggest of all, in fact - it is probably the largest natural craters on earth (it was not formed by asteroid impact). | | | ḡeḇ / Nāḡeḇ ; Arabic &; an-Naqab) is the desert region of southern Israel. | | | Other towns include Dimona and Mizpe Ramon, and a number of Bedouin towns, including Rahat and Tel Sheva. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Negev-desert
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| Â | Photographic exhibit - the Bedouin |
| | The Bedouin are nomadic people of Arab descent who live in desert areas in the Middle East. | | | The main focus of this exhibit is to display aspects of the transition of Bedouin from nomadic tribes to city dwellers, as part of an effort by the Israeli government to settle Bedouin in permanent settlements. | | | The faculty of Health Science at the Ben Gurion University is instrumental in providing health care to Bedouin still living in tents scattered around the Negev desert, and part of this exhibit is dedicated to the staff of the health care van which patrols the desert to provide medical attention to those who need it. |
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http://medic.bgu.ac.il/bedouin/
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| Â | Negev Desert - Sea Level |
| | The sign marks sea level in the Judean Desert. |
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http://www.davidpride.com/Israel/DeadSea_01.htm
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| Â | Negev |
| | In modern times the Negev was the scene of much fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces after the partition of Palestine in 1948. | | | Female role change and male response in the post-nomadic urban environment: the case of the Israeli Negev Bedouin. | | | ) are located in the Negev; dry farming has been attempted in some areas. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0835124.html
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| Â | faculty.htm: Faculty Members of the Mitrani Center for Desert Ecology |
| | Applying foraging theory and mechanisms of species coexistence to conservation issues. | | | Ayal, Y. Arthropod communities in deserts are top-down controlled: An example from the Central Negev, Israel. | | | Responding to a three-pronged attack: desert lilies subject to herbivory by dorcas gazelles. |
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http://www.bgu.ac.il/desert_ecology/ecology/faculty.htm
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| Â | Foxx Industries - Confederation of Palestine - GG II Support |
| | Each country of the Confederation produces its own currency: the Israeli Shekel, the Lebanese Pound, the Palestinian and Jordanian Dinar. | | | The Confederation of Palestine comprises all of the land of the four countries that comprise it except that there is no longer access to the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea as that territory now belongs to Arabia. | | | The southern half of Israel is comprised of the Negev desert with a mountainous area to the north. |
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http://www.foxx-industries.com/2300ad/palest.htm
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| Â | The Negev Album |
| | Send us pictures you have taken of the Negev and we will post them on the site and give you credit. |
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http://www.boker.org.il/meida/negev/album
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| Â | Dead Sea - Negev Desert |
| | The Negev Desert forms the triangular southern half of Israel. | | | It extends from Beersheba south to the port of Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba. | | | Even though it has a layer of fertile loam soil, little grows because of the lack of rainfall. |
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http://www.davidpride.com/Israel/Negev_02.htm
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| Â | BGN 22: Germination comparison study of Hordeum spontaneum regionally and locally in Israel: A population in the Negev ... |
| | In the present set of experiments no germination was found, even after more than 73 days of wetting, of freshly harvested caryopses (grains) of Hordeum spontaneum in their spikelets (the dispersal unit) which were harvested on 3 May, 1992 near Sede Boker in the Negev Desert Highlands. | | | This suggests that genetic factors underlie the above results. | | | Germination comparison study of Hordeum spontaneum regionally and locally in Israel: A population in the Negev Desert Highlands and from two opposing slopes on Mediterranean Mount Carmel |
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http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/ggpages/bgn/22/a22-05.html
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| Â | Kibbutz Yahel |
| | Kibbutz Yahel’s rapidly expanding tourism branch houses a seminar center that offers educational programming in a variety of areas to chartered groups, runs guided desert tours of the Negev and Arava and hosts Israeli high school students during their annual field trip to the Eilat area. | | | Yahel is the northern most outpost of the ten kibbutzim that make up the Hevel Eilot regional council, the municipality for shared cultural and economic activity. | | | The dairy herd of over 500 cows provides a steady year-round income. |
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http://www.ardom.co.il/desveg/yahel.htm
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| Â | Travelago - The World in Streaming Video |
| | In southern Israel, a remarkable arid region which forms part of the great Saharo-Arabian desert belt which extends from the Africa's Atlantic seaboard in the west, to the India's desert of Sind in the east. | | | Please give us feedback on release v4.0 of Travelago. |
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http://www.attractionview.com/parkdetails.asp?r_id=13&country_id=ISR&s_id=&p_id=44443
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| Â | Commentary on the Book of Judith |
| | In chapter 8 we shall be told that Judith was also of the tribe of Simeon. | | | Now Simeon was one of the southernmost tribes of Judah, with enclaves down even in the Negev desert (I Chronicles 4:28). | | | Is it therefore a peculiarity having a bastion of the Simeonites situated in the territory of Ephraïm? |
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http://www.specialtyinterests.net/judith.html
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