Sheikh Sayiah al-Tur, the Bedouin head of an 'unauthorised village' of Al-Araqib in the Naqab-Negeve, near the southern Israeli city of Beersheva (Hazem Bader - AFP) Middle East Monitor / November 3, 2021 The Israeli government today legalized three “unrecognized” Palestinian Bedouin villages in the southern Negev-Naqab desert. However, the terms stipulated by right-wing members of Naftali Bennett’s government will make formal recognition an impossibility, welfare groups have warned. The three villages are Rakhma, Hashm al-Zena, and Abda, said Yair Maayan, who directs a government office regulating Bedouin affairs. Improving the living conditions of the Negev Bedouin villagers was a...