ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines three major subjects. The first part provides an overview of the Bedouin in general, their tribal structure, and their tribal law. The focus in this part is on Bedouin Tribal Law (Alorf) and the Bedouin Tribal Land System and how it works to define and organize their land rights. The second part introduces the Bedouin in Israel, their land disputes with the state, and the main reasons for the disputes. The goal of this part is to shed more light on Bedouin land dispossession and introduce the history and the other elements essential to understanding Bedouin land rights issues in Israel. It describes the Ottoman and the British land laws that continue to affect Bedouin land rights and how the use the State continues to make with these laws including land rights doctrines, such as Mawat land doctrine. The third part introduces the Mawat land doctrine and other methods and techniques the state has been using to possess the land of the indigenous Bedouin land.
