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Outpost on the Negev. Heat, Dust and Sheep
Wakefield, Dan | June 16, 1956 issue

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The article discusses the life in the deserts of Negev, a region in Israel, with references to an experiment, called Sde Boker. Sde Boker was started in 1952 by a dozen Israelis who had come to Negev in the 1948-49 war with the Arab and caught the peculiar philosophic fever of the desert. The founders of Sde Boker wanted to set up a kind of nomad life. They thought that they would have a mobile camp of trailers and would be able to move to new green land or new water sources. They wanted to carry out agricultural experiments for the government to supplement their income.

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DESERT resources development; MIGRANT agricultural laborers; NOMADS; INCOME; TRAILERS; NEGEV (Israel); ISRAEL
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