Negev

I stood on the hill and looked out toward the edge of the Negev desert, imagining the villagers watching an army come into view.

Mr Elkadi is from a Bedouin village in the Negev desert and had been working as a security guard at Kibbutz Magen when he was abducted.

Now, Israeli authorities see the Negev as an enormous opportunity for large-scale afforestation.

Mr Elkadi, a father of 11 and grandfather of one, is from a Bedouin village in the Rahat area, in the Negev desert.

Adrienne was always friendly with the Palestinian workers, Carmel said, and with the Bedouin and Palestinian families whose babies she delivered while working at a hospital in the Negev desert.