[citation needed]During the British Mandate period, the administration did not provide a legal frame to justify and preserve land ownership.

[citation needed] Israel has continued the policy of sedentarization of the Negev Bedouins first imposed by the Ottoman authorities.

The other six townships built during that time are Hura, Lakiya, Ar'arat an-Naqab (Ar'ara BaNegev), Shaqib al-Salam (Segev Shalom), Kuseife (Kseife) and the city of Rahat, the largest among them.

[3] The authorities tried to learn from these mistake while planning and building other Bedouin villages and towns by creating, for example, more urban rather than rural environments.

[3] In 2000, the town was ranked lowest (1 out of 10) in socio-economic standing and only 43 percent of twelfth-grade students were eligible to graduate from high school.