Unemployment and poverty rates among the Negev Bedouin in unrecognized villages are the highest in Israel. Read more about Poverty rife among Bedouin women denied status by Israel 

A new Israeli proposal that would forcibly transfer more than 40,000 Bedouin citizens into government-planned townships in the Negev (Naqab) desert has raised the ire of Bedouin communities and their supporters, who say that the plan is both discriminatory and ignores the Bedouins’ historic connection to the land. Read more about Israel plans to forcibly transfer 40,000 Bedouin citizens