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31°6′24″N / 34°49′51″E
November 14, 2011. Trees planted on sand dunes south of Beersheba by the JNF between 1950 and 1952, when the JNF resumed planting forests following the 1948 war. These years were particularly plentiful with rain, allowing the otherwise difficult task of planting eucalyptus and tamarisk in such arid areas. The afforestation was meant to create windbreaks and stabilize the dunes. The trees were planted in little depressions within the topography of the dunes with a 60 percent success rate. This area lies between the unrecognized Bedouin villages of Wādi al-Na‛īm (home to about 5,000 Negev Bedouins who live mainly in tents and tin shacks) and Wādi al-Mshash (see 23), and was part of the territory of the ‛Azāzme tribe. The nearest official settlement is Beersheba, fourteen kilometers to the north. The site is on the land of the prior Palestinian villages of al-Muḥammadīn, al-Mas‛udīn, and Zarābe.