Mulada (; ), also known as Sa'wa (), is a

Bedouin The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu ( ; , singular ) are pastorally nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia (Iraq). The Bedouin originated in the Sy ...

village in the

Negev The Negev ( ; ) or Naqab (), is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region's largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba (pop. ), in the north. At its southern end is the Gulf of Aqaba and the resort town, resort city ...

desert in southern

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History

The village was established following

Government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a State (polity), state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive (government), execu ...

Resolution 881 on 29 September 2003, which created eight new Bedouin settlements (seven of which were to be located in the

Abu Basma Regional Council Abu Basma Regional Council (, ''Moatza Ezorit Abu Basma'', , ''Majlis Iqlimi Abu Basma'') was a regional council operating in 2003-2012 and covering several Bedouin villages in the northwestern Negev desert of Israel. Following the Minister of ...

). The village covers 11,000

dunam A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; ; ; ), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area analogous in role (but not equal) to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amo ...

s (900 hectares) and is home to the al-Atrash and al-Hawashla

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...

s.Negev Bedouin
Israel Land Administration It falls under the jurisdiction of

Al-Kasom Regional Council al-Kasom Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit El Kassum'', , ''al-Majlis al-Iqlīmī al-Qayṣūm'') is one of two Negev Bedouin regional council (Israel), regional councils formed as a result of the split of the Abu Basma Regional Council on Novem ...

. In it had a population of .

History

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