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Akhbar Al-Naqab is a free, weekly, regional newspaper focuses on issues related to Al-Naqab (the southern part of Israel, in Hebrew called the Negev). It is published on Tuesdays and distributed all over the Negev. 

The newspaper was started in 1988. Its office is located in Rahat, the largest Arab town in the Negev. The paper covers the news of the Negev Bedouins (approximately 170,000 in the beginning of 2006) in addition to news interesting for this community. 

The newspaper is independent, and it focuses on educational-social issues. It fights negative behaviors and traditions, aims at raising the awareness of the Negev Arabs to their civil rights in all the fields through its articles, interviews and reports. 

It is popular in the south because of its solidarity with the people, reliability, neutrality, and consideration of the community's culture and characteristics as a traditional Bedouin community going through a transitional period. 

Due to the special nature of the Bedouin Negev community's life and their living in governmentally planned towns and officially unrecognized villages, the newspaper covers this issue showing human rights violations, home demolition, and the conflict between the Bedouins and authorities with regard to land and home. 

The paper mainly depends on commercials, which makes it free. It also publishes its news on its Arabic website launched in 1997. 

The newspaper aims at qualifying journalists from the Negev because of their

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