1. The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel's never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal.

2. If this tree-planting experiment works in the Negev Desert, forests might be able to grow in many barren parts of the world that are too dry for most trees.

3. Israel's Negev desert was all but barren when the Ovitz family settled here decades ago.

4. A sandstorm was blowing in from the Negev desert, setting the wind chime singing mournfully above our heads.

5. In 1946 Yehuda joined the zionist Palmach regiment, and fought in the Negev desert two years later.

6. That is 16 times the amount of water harvested by the small-leafed plants of the Negev desert region.

7. A hospital spokesperson reported that the Bedouin returned to his tent in the Negev Desert to tend his goats.

8. The country gets an inordinate amount of sun[ ], and areas like the Negev Desert in the south still sport quite a bit of open space.

9. In a place that receives an average of just 3 inches (75 mm) of rainfall a year (the desert rhubarb grows in the mountains of Israel's Negev desert), every drop of water counts.

10. Israel already has two reactors, the Dimona reactor in the Negev desert, which is widely assumed to have produced nuclear weapons, and a research reactor at Nahal Soreq near Tel Aviv.

11. Seed Dispersal and Seed Predation of Plants Species in the Negev Desert.

12. By using irrigation, the Israelis have turned parts of the Negev Desert into a land of milk and honey.