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The Regional Council for Unrecognized Negev-villages, is NOT
a local authority but an organization.
One of the problems with settled Bedouins is the fact that as
former nomads sometimes they settled where they saw fit without
giving any thought to legalities such as land ownership, building
codes etc.
This brought to situation that there are many
"unrecognized" (or "illegal") villages which
are not part of any local authority and are not allowed to get
any municipal or state services.
The State demand that those villages will be removed from their
place and the settlers will find new homes in one of the existing
Bedouin "recognized" villages, however those demand
were rejected by the settlers.
One of the bodies that represent those villages is "The
regional Council for Unrecognized Negev-villages". Even thou
they have an "official-like" name, it is not a local
authority but an association of the (self-proclaimed) local
committees of those villages.
Following the footsteps of the "official" regional
councils, this one also adopted a flag whose photo can be seen at <stage.co.il>.
Dov Gutterman, 5 March 2005