When Hassan Hawashla looks out his window, he sees rows of identical modern apartment blocks, and construction cranes building more, as Dimona spreads into the surrounding Negev desert.
"Every day when I look at this city, it's getting closer and closer to us," said Hawashla, 40, who himself is among the construction labourers working in Dimona.
His own Bedouin village of Ras Jrabah is an informal settlement of tin-roofed houses and a few concrete buildings, crisscrossed by dusty dirt roads and home to about 500 people. Читать дальше...