The Israeli authorities' treatment of the Bedouin population was ambivalent.

The Israeli government has promoted the sedentarization of the Bedouin population.

The goal is to alleviate unemployment in the local Bedouin population.

The Bedouin population in the Arab world has already dwindled to a few hundred thousand.

On the basis of that investigation, the Palestine Administration estimated the Bedouin population at approximately 127,000.

Israeli Arabs may still volunteer to perform military service, but very few do so (except among the Bedouin population of Israel).

However, preference was given to Jewish labor, and as of 1958, employment in the Bedouin male population was less than 3.5%.

Within a few years, half of the Bedouin population moved into the seven townships built for them.

Pappé estimates that between 1928 and 1932 the Italian military "killed half the Bedouin population (directly or through starvation in camps)."

During the 1948 war, and afterward, it was considered a priority by the fledgling Israeli state to clear the Negev of its Bedouin population.