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thumb|right|A view of Hura Hura, or Houra (, ) is a Bedouin town in the Southern District of Israel. It is located near Beersheba and beside the town Meitar. The town was established in 1989 as a part of solution offered by the state for the consolidation of Negev Bedouin population, and was declared a local council in 1996. In it had a population of .

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Place details

Locality
حورة
Region
מחוז הדרום
Country
ישראל
Population
21,558
Timezone
Asia/Jerusalem

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Key facts

Settlement.name
Hura
Settlement.settlement_type
Local council
Settlement.image_skyline
Hura.jpg
Settlement.pushpin_map
Israel north negev#Israel
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type2
District
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Southern
Settlement.established_title
Founded
Settlement.established_date
1989
Settlement.leader_title
Head of Municipality
Settlement.leader_name
Alatawneh Habes
Settlement.unit_pref
dunam
Settlement.population_density_km2
auto

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thumb|right|A view of Hura Hura, or Houra (, ) is a Bedouin town in the Southern District of Israel. It is located near Beersheba and beside the town Meitar. The town was established in 1989 as a part of solution offered by the state for the consolidation of Negev Bedouin population, and was declared a local council in 1996. In it had a population of .

Hura is one of seven Bedouin townships in the Negev desert with approved plans and developed infrastructure (the other six are: Ar'arat an-Naqab (Ar'ara BaNegev), Lakiya, Shaqib al-Salam (Segev Shalom), Kuseife (Kseife), Tel as-Sabi (Tel-Sheva) and the city of Rahat, the largest among them).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hura” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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