Government drops controversial Arab-Bedouin relocation plan
The bill, first introduced in 2011, is a government plan to forcibly relocate some 40,000 Bedouin citizens living in dozens of “unrecognized” villages in Israel’s Negev desert. The plan has drawn heavy criticism from both Arab-Bedouin citizens, Hadash, the Communist Party of Israel and human rights groups. In the past year it has also been…