Summary
Military governor of the Naqab (styled military governor of the Negev in his 1952 letter) who, in The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People, refused the Tarabin sheikhs’ 1951 request to return to their land and offered compensation instead, and who in 1952 recorded collecting 19,000 Israeli Lira in land tax from the Bedouin on the very land later disputed (The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People, PDF p.14, 16-17 / printed p.94, 96-97).
Details
- His reply to a Tarabin sheikh is in the Israel Defence Forces Archive, ref. 1953/834-263 (note 54).
- His now-declassified 1952 letter to the Defense Ministry and the Prime Minister’s Office, Israel State Archives ref. GL 13904/14, is quoted: ‘During 1950/1951, a total amount of 19,000 Israeli Lira were collected from the Bedouin as land tax by the Negev military governor with the help of Bedouin. Bedouin paid money for each dunam to be recognized’ (PDF p.16-17, note 61).
Related pages
The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People, Naqab, Siyaj, Mawat