Israel has expressed its support and will likely benefit from some of the water delivery to its Negev region.

There were also other cultures in the region, such as the Mushabian culture of the Negev and Sinai, which are sometimes distinguished from the Kebaran, and sometimes also seen as having played a role in the development of the Natufian.

The high mountains of Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon, the steppe areas of the Negev desert in Israel and Sinai, and the Syro-Arabian desert in the east were much less favoured for Natufian settlement, presumably due to both their lower carrying capacity and the company of other groups of foragers who exploited this region.

Ziklag () is the Biblical name of a town that was located in the Negev region in the south of what was the Kingdom of Judah.

The same narrative position is occupied in the republican source by the story of Nabal, who lived in the region south of Hebron ( which includes the Negev ).

The Negev (, Tiberian vocalization: ; ) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel.

In 2005, the Tel Aviv municipality was accused of dumping waste in the Negev at the Dudaim dump. The Manufacturers Association of Israel established an authority in 2005 to move 60 industrial enterprises active in the Tel Aviv region to the Negev.

They have a significant effect on the region: the total population of snails is estimated to process between 0. 7 and 1. 1 metric ton per hectare per year of limestone in the Negev desert.

Israel department programs focus on strengthening Israel's periphery, namely the Galilee region in the north and the Negev in the South.

This is attested, in part, by the discovery of a statue base bearing his name from the Lebanese city of Byblos, part of a monumental stela from Megiddo bearing his name, and a list of cities in the region comprising Syria, Philistia, Phoenicia, the Negev and the Kingdom of Israel, among various topographical lists inscribed on the walls of temples of Amun at al-Hibah and Karnak.

JDC is supporting a partnership between The All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives ( ACFSMC ) and the Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development ( NISPED ) that is leading an ambitious reconstruction effort in the region.

Most of those are employed in industry work in local factories such as Agis-Perrigo ( Careline cosmetics and pharmaceuticals ), Negev Ceramics, Phoenicia Glass Works ( which moved to Yeruham from Haifa in 1968 ) Brand Metals, Ackerstein, Yehu Clays, TTK electronics, and Tempo ( some of which utilize raw materials from the region ).

The rest of those employed work in the surrounding region in companies such as, Ramat Hovav, Negev Nuclear Research Center, Dead Sea Works, Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva, Ben-Gurion University, and in Sde Boker.

Avdat, like other towns in the central Negev highlands, adjusted to the cessation of international trade through the region in the early to mid 3rd century by adopting agriculture, and particularly the production of wine, as its means of subsistence.

* Three mandated territories under British control: all of the Galilee ( initial population 77, 300 Jews and 231, 400 Arabs ), an enclave including Jerusalem and Lydda ( initial population 80, 100 Jews and 211, 400 Arabs ), and the Negev region from north of Beersheva ( initially 60, 000 Arabs ).

Prior to the establishment of Israel, the Negev Bedouins were a semi-nomadic society that had been through a process of sedentariness since the Ottoman rule of the region.

Shalom region ) is an area in the western Negev desert close to Israel's border with the Gaza Strip and Egypt's Sinai.

As of 2006, about 2, 500 Hebrew Israelites live in Dimona and two other towns in the Negev region of Israel, where they are widely referred to as Black Hebrews.

Ben-Sasson, under Diocletian ( 284-305 ) the region was divided into Palaestina Prima which was Judea, Samaria, Idumea, Peraea and the coastal plain with Caesarea as capital, Palaestina Secunda which was Galilee, Decapolis, Golan with Beth-shean as capital, and Palaestina Tertia which was the Negev with Petra as capital.

The proposal has also generated some concern in Egypt, which believes that the canal will increase seismic activity in the region ; provide Israel with water for cooling its nuclear reactor near Dimona ; turn the Negev Desert into a settlement area and increase well salinity ..

There the LORD showed him the whole land — from Gilead to Dan, all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean Sea, the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar.

The vast red carpets of Anemones have become a major tourist attraction of the northern Negev region of Israel, in recent years.

* Lands of the Negev, a short film presented by Israel Land Administration describing the challenges Bedouins face in their sedentarization in Israel's southern Negev region

Dimona () is an Israeli city in the Negev desert, to the south of Beersheba and west of the Dead Sea above the Arava valley in the Southern District of Israel.

Currently, Dimona is the third largest city in the Negev, with the population of 33, 900.

It is in the Negev Desert, therefore it has a desert climate with low humidity for most of the year and little precipitation.

Home to 46, 600 people, the city is part of the Southern Negev Desert, at the southern end of the Arava.

Yoseftal Medical Center, established in 1968, is Israel ’ s southernmost hospital, and the only hospital covering the southern Negev.

* One of Israel's major universities, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, located in Beersheva, is named after him.

Achsah later requests, and is given, upper and lower springs of water ( presumably in the Negev ) from her father.

Akrabbim (, meaning " scorpions ") is probably the general name given to the ridge containing the pass between the south of the Dead Sea and Zin, es-Sufah, by which there is an ascent to the level of the Negev desert.

The desert is home to the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, whose faculties include the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research and the Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies, both located on the Midreshet Ben-Gurion campus adjacent to Sde Boker.

In the Bible, the word Negev is also used for the direction ' south '; some English-language translations use the spelling " Negeb ".

In Arabic, the Negev is known as al-Naqab, although it was created with the establishment of the Egypt-Palestine frontier in the 19th century and has no single traditional Arabic name.

The Negev is a rocky desert.

Home to the city of Beersheba, the central Negev has an annual precipitation of 200 mm and is characterized by impervious soil, known as loess, allowing minimum penetration of water with greater soil erosion and water runoff.

Of the three Acacia species growing in high plateaux of the Negev, Acacia pachyceras is the most cold-resistant

Pharaonic Egypt is credited with introducing copper mining and smelting in both the Negev and the Sinai between 1400 and 1300 BC.

Today, the Negev is home to many of the Israel Defense Forces major bases.

The Negev is home to hazardous infrastructures that include a nuclear reactor, 22 agro and petrochemical factories, an oil terminal, closed military zones, quarries, a toxic waste incinerator Ramat Hovav, cell towers, a power plant, several airports, a prison, and 2 rivers of open sewage.

The main thrust of critics ' argument is that the appropriate response to overpopulation is not to recruit hundreds of thousands of additional settlers, and the answer to overdevelopment in the north is not to build up the last open spaces in the second most-densely crowded country in the developed world ; rather, what is required is an inclusive plan for the green vitalization of existing population centers in the Negev, investment in long-awaited service-provision in Bedouin villages, clean-up of its many toxic industries ( such as Ramat Hovav ), and the development of a viable economic plan focusing on creating job options for the unemployed rather than promoting an influx of new immigrants and creating jobs for them.