Kuseife
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| Country | File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel |
| District | Southern |
| Founded | 1982 |
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| • Head of Municipality | Salem Abu Ravieh[1] |
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Kuseife (Template:Langx) or Kseifa (Template:Langx) is a Bedouin town organized as a local council in the Southern District of Israel. Kuseife was founded in 1982 as part of a government project to plan and build towns for Negev Bedouins.[3] In 1996 it was declared a local council, and in 2024 it had a population of 21,849.[2]
History
British Mandate
The Survey of Western Palestine noted Khurbet Kuseifeh as “a small ruin with foundations and heaps of stones.”[4]
Israel
The area appears as Kuseife in the military administration documents starting from the 1950s.
After the peace treaty signed between Egypt and Israel, the Sinai Peninsula was returned to Egypt and all the IDF bases stationed there were removed to the Israeli territory, some of them to the Negev desert. One of them was a Nevatim Airbase. A township adjacent to the base appeared at the same time. Kuseifa was one of seven townships planned and built for Bedouins in order to sedentarize and urbanize by offering better life conditions, proper infrastructure and high quality public services in sanitation, health and education, and municipal services. The other towns founded alongside were Hura, Lakiya, Ar'arat an-Naqab, Shaqib al-Salam, Tel as-Sabi and Rahat. Initially, development of Kuseifa was strained by land claims of Bedouins that were later resolved.
Population
Members of several Bedouin family clans reside in Kuseife: Abu Ajaj, Elamor, el-Zabarka, el-Nasasra, the biggest of them Abu-Rabia. Other families are: Azbarga, El-Dada, Abu Juda and Abu Anam. A part of el-Nasasra and Elamor clans lives outside Kuseife in a close proximity to the Nevatim Airbase.
According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the population of Kuseife was 17,400 in December 2010[5] (10,300 in December 2006[6]). Its annual growth rate is 3.6%. Kuseife's jurisdiction is 13,692 dunams (almost 13.7 km2).[7] Israeli Statistics classified the town as religious to very religious.
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Economy and services
According to the CBS data for December 2009, the local council of Kuseife is ranked lowest (1 out of 10) in its socio-economic ranking with an average income NIS 4,331 to the national average of NIS 7,070 (2009). Only 43.4% of grade twelve students are eligible to graduate from high school (2008-2009).
Industrial parks are in the area include Hura and Dimona. The closest industrial zone to Kuseife is situated in Arad. Other job opportunities are: several chemical plants near the Dead Sea like the Dead Sea Works, different high-tech companies and textile shops. Some Bedouins work in the service industry.
There are several schools in the township and a community center. Medical clinics in Kuseife include Leumit, Clalit, Maccabi and several Tipat Halav perinatal (baby care) centers.
In May 2017, a railway extension from Beersheba to Arad with a station at Kuseife was approved. The line would connect to the existing Beersheba-Dimona rail line at the proposed new station at Nevatim.[8]
References
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- ^ PM Netanyahu meets with Negev Bedouin mayors Script error: No such module "webarchive". MFA, November 3, 2011
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
- ^ State of Israel. Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. List of Issues to be taken up in Connection with the Consideration of Israel's Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of Israel (CEDAW/C/ISR/4 and CEDAW/C/ISR/5) Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, Survey of Western Palestine, Vol. III: Judaea, p. 409.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Statistical abstract of Israel 2011. POPULATION AND DENSITY PER SQ. KM. IN LOCALITIES NUMBERING 5,000 RESIDENTS AND MORE ON 31 XII 2010(1)" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-05. Retrieved 2010-12-31.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Table 3 - Population of Localities Numbering Above 1,000 Residents and Other Rural Population" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 2007-12-31. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Local Authorities in Israel 2005, Publication #1295 - Municipality Profiles - Kuseife" (PDF) (in עברית). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Arad railway extension approved". Globes. 16 May 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
External links
- Lands of the Negev, a short film presented by Israel Land Administration describing the challenges faced in providing land management and infrastructure to the Bedouins in Israel's southern Negev region
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