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Israel’s coalition in crisis over tree planting in Bedouin areas

The crisis within the coalition over a forestation project on lands used by Bedouin communities in the Negev has won Israel’s opposition some victories in the Knesset.

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Israeli security forces and undercover police arrest a young Beduin demonstrator during a protest in the southern Israeli village of Sawe al-Atrash in the Neguev Desert against an forestation project by the Jewish National Fund, on Jan. 13, 2022. — MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images

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