Summary
Amendment No. 4 (2010) to the Negev Development Authority Law, providing for recognition of individual settlements in the Naqab, in a Description-only entry in Discriminatory Laws Database (lines 1933-1969).
Details
- Around 60 individual settlements in the Naqab stretch over 81,000 dunams, often established without permits and contrary to planning laws, in the entry’s figures (lines 1946-1948 in the copy’s line numbering as read; see source page for the entry range).
- Amendment No. 4, passed July 2010, provides legal tools to recognize all individual settlements in the Naqab and empowers the Negev Development Authority to recommend land allocations for them, while unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages, with 90,000-100,000 inhabitants, are denied status and basic services (source entry, lines 1933-1969).