Kuseife
human settlement in Israel
Kuseife (Arabic: كسيفة) or Kseifa (Hebrew: כְּסֵיפָה) is a Bedouin town organized as a local council in the Southern District of Israel. Kuseife was founded in 1982 as part of a government project to plan and build towns for Negev Bedouins. In 1996 it was declared a local council, and in 2024 it had a population of 21,849.
History
British Mandate
The Survey of Western Palestine noted Khurbet Kuseifeh as “a small ruin with foundations and heaps of stones.”
Israel
The area appears as Kuseife in the military administration documents starting from the 1950s.
After the peace treaty signed between Egypt and Israel, the Sinai Peninsula was returned to Egypt and all the IDF bases stationed there were removed to the Israeli territory, some of them to the Negev desert. One of them was a Nevatim Airbase. A township adjacent to the base appeared at the same time. Kuseifa was one of seven townships planned and built for Bedouins in order to sedentarize and urbanize by offering better life conditions, proper infrastructure and high quality public services in sanitation, health and education, and municipal services. The other towns founded alongside were Hura, Lakiya, Ar'arat an-Naqab, Shaqib al-Salam, Tel as-Sabi and Rahat. Initially, development of Kuseifa was strained by land claims of Bedouins that were later resolved.
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