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Adalah demands Israel permit residents of Al Fura' to register to vote prior to upcoming regional
elections; village was recognized by the state in 2006.
Adalah The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel has sent a letter to Israeli Interior Minister
Aryeh Deri and Al Qassoum Regional Council Elections Director Mickey Berkovitch to demand that
residents of a Bedouin village in the Naqab (Negev) desert region of southern Israel be allowed to
register to vote.
Adalah sent the letter on 23 March 2017 on behalf of Al Fura' residents demanding that they be
registered to vote prior to the upcoming Al Qassoum Regional Council elections on 25 April. It will be the
first regional council elections held in Al Qassoum since the establishment of the Abu Basma Regional
Council in 2003, which was then split into the two regional councils of Al Qassoum and Neve Midbar in
2012, partly in order to deny the right to vote to the population of the villages.
Al Fura' was recognized by the state in 2006. However, despite its recognized status the residents of Al
Fura' have not been registered to vote in elections to the Al Qassoum Regional Council, unlike the
residents of other villages within the council's jurisdiction, even though they also pay local taxes to the
council and it is responsible for their welfare.
"This situation creates a serious infringement of the right to equality and discriminates against the
residents of Al Fura'," said Adalah Attorney Muna Haddad, who wrote the letter.
Haddad argued that "The rights to vote and to be elected are basic rights at both the national and local
levels. The courts have repeatedly ruled that the rights to vote and to be elected to local government are
constitutional rights of the utmost importance."
New Law Deprives 25,000 Arab Bedouin Citizens of Israel of Right to Vote in Local Elections in the Naqab
(Negev)
Adalah demands public transportation routes for residents of unrecognized Bedouin villages on Election
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Read more:
Unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages, Elections and political participation among the Arab-Palestinian
minority, bedouin, Arab Bedouin, Al Fura', Voting rights
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