It lies east of the modern city of Beersheba and west of the Bedouin town of Tel Sheva.

The nearest settlements are the Bedouin towns of Tel as-Sabi to the north and Shaqib al-Salam to the south.

He is married and the father of five children and currently lives in the Bedouin town of Lakiya in the Negev.

Sheikh Zuweid (also spelled Sheikh Zoweid) is a Bedouin town in the North Sinai Governorate of Egypt near the border with the Gaza Strip.

Between Nokdim Junction and Goral Junction the highway forms an eastern bypass of Be'er Sheva, also passing Omer and the Bedouin towns of Shaqib al-Salam and Tel as-Sabi.

In addition, the Minister will tour the Negev region of southern Israel including Bedouin towns and meet Bedouin high-tech entrepreneurs supported by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour's MATI Business Development Centre.

Between 1998 and 2002, Bedouin towns and villages had among the highest per-capita hospitalization rates, Rahat and Tel Sheva ranked highest.

In urban townships, access to water is also an issue: an article from the World Zionist Organization Hagshama Department explains that water allocation to Bedouin towns is 25-50% of that to Jewish towns.

Some Arab, Druze, and Bedouin towns and villages have sign languages of their own.

I recently visited Tel Sheva, a Bedouin town outside Beersheva and saw some of the problems Mr. Bailey describes, that is, poverty and unemployment.