Tel as-Sabi
Tel as-Sabi
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View of Tel as-Sabi from Tel Be'er Sheva
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 Tel as-Sabi
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| Coordinates: 31°14′48.12″N 34°51′21.96″E / 31.2467000°N 34.8561000°ECoordinates: 31°14′48.12″N 34°51′21.96″E / 31.2467000°N 34.8561000°E | |
| District | Southern |
| Founded | 1967 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Local council |
| • Head of Municipality | Musa Abu Isa |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5,000 dunams (5 km2 or 2 sq mi) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 18,671 |
Tel as-Sabi (Arabic: تل السبع) or Tel Sheva (Hebrew: תֵּל שֶׁבַע) is a Bedouin town in the Southern District of Israel, bordering the city of Beersheba. In 2015 it had a population of 18,671.
The first Bedouin township in Israel, Tel as-Sabi was founded in 1967 as part of a government project to settle Bedouins in permanent settlements and became a local council in 1984. It is one of seven Bedouin townships in the Negev desert with approved plans and developed infrastructure.
Most researches agree that Bedouins arrived to the Negev around 1800 AD, but there is evidence of earlier migrations as well.
The Negev Bedouin, a semi-nomadic society, has been going through a process of sedentarization since the later part of Ottoman rule in the region.
During the British Mandate period, the administration did not provide a legal frame to justify and preserve land ownership. In order to settle this issue, Israel's land policy was adapted to a large extent from the Ottoman land regulations of 1858 as the only preceding legal frame. Thus Israel nationalized most of the Negev lands using the state's land regulations from 1969.
Israel has continued the policy of sedentarization of the Negev Bedouins first imposed by the Ottoman authorities. Israel's measures at first it included regulation and relocation; during the 1950s Israel has relocated two-thirds of the Negev Bedouins into an area that was administered under martial law. The next step was to establish seven townships built especially for Bedouins in order to sedentarize and urbanize the Bedouins by offering them better life conditions, proper infrastructure and high-quality public services in sanitation, health, education, and municipal services. The other six townships are Hura, Lakiya, Ar'arat an-Naqab (Ar'ara BaNegev), Shaqib al-Salam (Segev Shalom), Kuseife (Kseife) and the city of Rahat, the largest among them.
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