page_title: Abu Alkian
section_title: Present day
hierarchical_section_title: Abu Alkian / Present day
caption_attribution_description: עברית: ביה"ס ומתנ"ס בחורה
context_page_description: The Abu Alkian bedouin Arabic: أبو القيعان‎, Hebrew: אבו-אלקיעאן‎) is a Bedouin tribe living in Negev, Israel.
context_section_description: Since the end of the 1980s the major part of Abu Alkian clan - 3,200 of 4,300 people, or roughly 75 per cent (according to May 2012) - resides in their homes in a planned Bedouin township of Hura (Houra). As for the rest – around 1,000 people – they are scattered and live in two main clusters - unrecognized villages Atir and Umm al-Hiran.
caption: Houra school and a local community center
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