Summary
The commission established in December 2007 by Ehud Olmert’s administration, chaired by former high court judge Eliezer Goldberg, tasked with ‘finalising’ the status of Bedouin land claims in the Naqab, whose 2008 report recommended recognising half the Bedouin claims on agricultural land currently occupied, around 200,000 dunams of the 600,000 dunams claimed (The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People, PDF p.22 / printed p.102).
Details
- The recommended 200,000 dunams (50,000 acres) is “less than a third of what Bedouin land claims have demanded since the 1970s” (PDF p.22).
- The implementation team formed in January 2009 under Ehud Prawer offered less than 27 percent of the claims, and in late 2011 Yisrael Beiteinu urged cancelling the offer (PDF p.22-23).
- The abstract names the “Prawer and Golberg Commissions” together for the 2011 approval of plans to expel 30,000 Bedouin, printing Goldberg as Golberg there (PDF p.2).
Related pages
The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People, Eliezer Goldberg, Ehud Prawer, Naqab