Tirabin al-Sana
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Tirabin al-Sana תראבין א-צאנע ترابين |
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Tirabin al-Sana's mosque under construction
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 Tirabin al-Sana
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| Coordinates: 31°20′43.8″N 34°44′13.39″E / 31.345500°N 34.7370528°ECoordinates: 31°20′43.8″N 34°44′13.39″E / 31.345500°N 34.7370528°E | |
| District | Southern |
| Council | Al-Kasom |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Population (2015) | 437 |
Tirabin al-Sana (Hebrew: תראבין א-צאנע), also Tarabin (Arabic: ترابين), is a Bedouin village in the Negev desert in southern Israel. The village was built for the Tarabin tribe. Located near Rahat and Mishmar HaNegev, it falls under the jurisdiction of al-Kasom Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 437.
Prior to the establishment of Israel, the Negev Bedouins were a semi-nomadic society that had been through a process of sedentariness since the Ottoman rule of the region. During the British Mandate period, no legal framework was established to justify and preserve land ownership. Thus Israel’s land policy was adopted to a large extent from the Ottoman land regulations of 1858 as the only legal precedent.
Israel has continued the Ottoman policy of sedentarization of Negev Bedouins. In the 1950s the government re-settled two-thirds of the Negev Bedouin in an area that was under a martial law. Several townships were built for them, offering better living conditions, infrastructure, sanitation, health and education, and municipal services.
As of today, according to the information of Israel Land Administration, over 60% of the Negev Bedouin live in seven settlements in the Negev desert with approved plans and developed infrastructure: Hura, Lakiya, Ar'arat an-Naqab (Ar'ara BaNegev), Shaqib al-Salam (Segev Shalom), Tel as-Sabi (Tel-Sheva), Kuseife and the city of Rahat, the largest among them). These townships cannot resolve the issue of high population density and illegal construction in the Negev absolutely, so besides expanding existing towns, the Israeli government has decided to construct 13 additional settlements for the Negev Bedouin, and Tirabin al-Sana is one of them.
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