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100	1	0	_aMortier, Élisabeth _eauthor
245	0	0	_a“The fight against desert and drought”: The Negev’s water resources and Zionist projects at the end of the Palestine mandate
260			_c2019.
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520			_aAt the time of the British Conquest of Palestine (1917) the Negev’s water resources were little known. During the British mandate (1920-1948), the Negev desert turned to a major policy issue between the Bedouins, the Zionist institutions and the colonial power, due to the successive waves of Jewish migration to Palestine. Critical to the desert’s development, water is sought from the 1930s to determine if this arid space, representing almost half of the surface of Palestine, had the capacity to accommodate the settlement of sedentary Jewish populations. This article focuses with the different steps of British and Zionist search for water resources and enlightens the Zionist land strategy in the desert before the outbreak of the Second World War. This article analyses the Bedouin’s hydraulic techniques and engineering and their transformation by the Zionist institutions.
690			_aPalestine mandate
690			_a20th century
690			_aenvironmental history
690			_aWater
690			_aNegev
690			_ahydraulic techniques
690			_azionism
786	0		_nRevue d’histoire moderne & contemporaine | o 66-4 | 4 | 2019-11-15 | p. 141-163 | 0048-8003
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-d-histoire-moderne-et-contemporaine-2019-4-page-141?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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