The rate of growth of the Negev Bedouin is the highest
in the world – the Bedouin population doubles its size every
15 years. By 2020, the Bedouin population of the Negev will
be 300,000.
Israel provides its citizens with high quality public
services in sanitation, health and education, and
municipal services. These services can only be provided
to those living in permanent housing, and the fact that the
Bedouin are dispersed over an extensive area prevents the
state from offering these public services.
Israel is currently building 13 new villages or towns
for the Negev Bedouin. These townships are intended to
meet all the present and future needs of this population.
The government of Israel has allocated more than
NIS1 billion for the benefit of this population. Aside
from building new townships for the Bedouin in the Negev,
the Israeli government plans to invest more than NIS 1 billion
in a multi-phased program to improve the infrastructure of
existing Bedouin towns and to develop their public facilities.
Read more here.
http://www.mmi.gov.il/static/HanhalaPirsumim/Beduin_information.pdf