[2] New Dawn was founded by Jamal Alkirnawi, a Bedouin social worker who worked for Ben Gurion University as an academic counsellor for Arab students.

In 2009, Alkirnawi established New Dawn to empower Bedouin youth, offering English, Hebrew, IT and music classes, and providing opportunities to meet people and cultures outside of their own communities.

The process of sedentarization is full of hardships for any nation, since it means a shift from one way of life to another – a transition from wandering to permanent residence, and Bedouin whose society is based on tradition are no exception.

As a result of rapid and unexpected changes of the social infrastructure, Bedouin faced many difficulties, primarily related to the integration issues.

[10] There is another serious problem of trespassing on state lands and building of unrecognized Bedouin settlements, which have no municipal status and face demolition orders.

Members of several Bedouin family clans reside in Rahat: Al-Qrenawi, Tarabin, Al-Huzeil, Al-Tayaha, Al-Azazma, Al-Jubur, Al-Tawarah, Howeitat, and AbuZayed.

A New Dawn in the Negev advocate that education, employment, and leadership are the key elements helping youth and young adults rise out of poverty to become active, engaged citizens in civil society.

The programme allows ITF volunteers to be immersed in the Bedouin culture and community of Israel while creating ties of coexistence between all residents of the Negev.

[3] In January 2015 Omer Meir Wellber, a renowned Israeli conductor currently with the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra, Jacob Reuven, and Jamal Alkirnawi met together and founded the "Sarab - Strings of change" program.