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Encyclopedia > Laqye

Lakiya, or Laqye (Hebrew: לקיה) is a Bedouin town (local council) in the Southern District of Israel. Hebrew (עִבְרִית ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel with the West Bank, the United States, and Jewish communities around the world. ... Bedouin resting at Mount Sinai Bedouin, derived from the Arabic , a generic name for a desert-dweller, is a term generally applied to Arab nomadic groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via the Western Desert, Sinai, and Negev... In Israel, a local council is a locality similar to a city in structure and way of life, that has not yet achieved a status of a city, which requires a minimum number of residents, among other things. ... The South District of Israel, highlighted. ...


According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the population of Lakiya was 7,600 in December 2004. Lakiya's jurisdiction is 5,600 dunams (5.6 km²). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה) is a state organization for the creation and maintenance of numeric data related to populations vis-à-vis the ethnic makeup of Israel and its cities. ... A dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum is a unit of area. ...


Lakiya was founded in 1982 as part of a government project to settle Bedouins in permanent settlements.


External links

  • [www.lakiya.org Official website]


Israeli Bedouin settlement project of 1982
Ar'ara BaNegev | Hura | Kuseife | Lakiya | Rahat | Segev-Shalom | Tel Sheva


 

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