Israel revokes citizenship of hundreds of Negev Bedouin

 Israeli authorities revoked citizenship of hundreds of Negev Bedouins in southern Israel over the past years on grounds of erroneous registration, Haartez reported on Friday. 
These Bedouins found themselves not Israeli citizens but they became permanent citizens as they could vote in the local elections but they cannot vote in the Knesset elections like the Palestinians in Al Quds. 
Lawmaker Aida Touma-Suliman of the Join List had received many appeals in recent months from people who have been stripped of their Israeli citizenship. 
Attorney Sausan Zahar from the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel recently appealed to Israeli Interior Minister Arye Dery and Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit, asking them to cancel this policy.
According to her petition, these sweeping citizenship cancellations has been going on at least since 2010.
The head of the ministry's citizenship department, Ronen Yerushalmi, submitted the findings to the committee's chairman, David Amsalem (Likud), in September 2016. 
Entitled "Erroneous Registration of Negev Residents," the report said that "the extent of the problem could involve up to 2,600 people with Israeli citizenship, who could lose it due to erroneous registration by the Interior Ministry." It added that since individual cases had not been examined, the data was not precise and the numbers could even be higher. 

Source: Mena