Tel Sheva (Hebrew: תל שבע) is a Bedouin town (local council) in the Southern District of Israel, bordering Be'er Sheva. 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. ... Beersheba or Beer Sheva (Hebrew באר שבע; Arabic بئر السبع Biʾr as-Sabʿ) is a city in Israel. ...

According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the population of Tel Sheva was 12,500 in December 2004. Tel Sheva's jurisdiction is 5,000 dunams (5 km²). As of 2000, the town has been ranked lowest (1 out of 10) in socio-economic standing, with an average income of 3,237 shekels to the national average's of 6,835. Only 43% of grade twelve students are eligible to graduate from high school. 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. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Silver half-shekel struck in the Greek Colony of Taras, during the Punic occupation. ...

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