Shaqib al-Salam (Arabic: شقيب السلام) or Segev Shalom (Hebrew: שֶׂגֶב שָׁלוֹם) and also known as Shqeb as-Salam,[3] is a Bedouin town and a local council in the Southern District of Israel, southeast of Beersheba.

[4] The town is named for the Sagiv river that flows nearby and the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel (Shalom means peace in Hebrew) which were signed the same year the township was founded.

Prior to the establishment of Israel, the Negev Bedouins were a semi-nomadic society in the process of sedentariness since the Ottoman rule of the region.

[citation needed] Shaqib al-Salam/Segev Shalom was founded in 1979 based on an agreement reached with Azazmeh Sheikh Ouda which allowed the tribe to settle on its traditional lands.

Twenty Arab-Bedouin women from the towns of Rahat, Lakiya, Tel Sheva, Segev Shalom, Kuseife and Rachma participated in a sewing course for fashion design at the Amal College in Beer Sheva, including lessons on sewing and cutting, personal empowerment and business initiatives.

[3] The Jewish National Fund built a central park with an amphitheater adjacent to the community’s town hall.