Eleven points ( Hebrew
אַחַד עָשָׂר נְקֻדָּות הִתְיַשְּׁבוּת בנֶגֶב) is the name of a 1946 operation by the Jewish Agency to colonize the Negev desert , which until then was mainly inhabited by Bedouins .
The majority of the Jewish settlements were then in the north of what is now the State of Israel . In 1946, the plan of partitioning Palestine was adopted, according to which 17% of the territory would be allocated to the newly created Jewish state, 40% (including the north of the Negev) to the Arab state and the remaining 43% (including Jerusalem and the south of the Negev) should remain under the administration of Great Britain .
Today ten of the eleven settlements still exist; Kfar Darom, which was in the Gaza Strip , was evacuated in 1948, rebuilt in 1970 and abandoned again in August 2005 as part of Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip . Operation Elf Punkt is one of the most important actions in the Jewish settlement of Palestine.
Web links
The great drift. In: Jerusalem Post. January 25, 2007, accessed March 25, 2011 .
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