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New Settlement Built in Negev to Judaise Area, Displace Indigenous Bedouin Communities
The first housing plots in the new Negev settlement of Carmit went on sale this week.

A representative of the Or Movement, which promotes settlement construction in the Negev and the Galilee, said Carmit is being advertised as a town for "affluent immigrants from English-speaking countries."

"There are 80 families of British, Americans and South Africans who are coming,” Roni Flamer, the movement's co-founder, stated in March 2010.

Israel’s District Planning and Building Commission of the Southern Region approved the construction of 739 housing units for Carmit’s Phase A, back in 2005.

The new settlement has a wide collection of funders and supporters, including the Jewish Agency, the Metar Local Council, the Jewish National Fund, JNF – USA, JNF – UK, the Ministry of Construction and Housing, the Israel Land Administration, the Ministry for the Development of the Negev and Galilee, the American Evangelical group John Hagee Ministries, the OR Movement and various private donors.

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