Negev Foundation Negev Foundation The Negev Foundation is a Cleveland based non-profit, tax-exempt organization that promotes the agricultural development and economic sustainability of the Negev Desert in Israel. The Negev Foundation promotes agricultural innovations that allow farmers to utilize the desert’s arid lands and brackish water as tools to successfully cultivate a wide range of crops. In 2008, the organization was recognized by Charity Navigator for its fourth consecutive year of having a four star C.N. efficiency rating. Since 2002, The Negev Foundation has overseen the Ohio-Israel Agriculture Initiative. This initiative has coordinated and developed projects engaging both the Ohio and Israel
Negev a 20 km vicinity of Ramat Hovav. The study, funded in large part by Ramat Hovav, found higher rates of cancer and mortality for the 350,000 people in the area. Prematurely released to the media by an unknown source, the preliminary study was publicly discredited; However, its final conclusions – that Bedouin and Jewish residents near Ramat Hovav are significantly more susceptible than the rest of the population to miscarriages, severe birth defects, and respiratory diseases – passed a peer review several months later. Negev The Negev (, Tiberian vocalization: ""; "an-Naqab") is a desert and semidesert region of southern