Plans to newly Judean settlement in the Negev appeared already on the begining of the political Zionism. The most known plan was the ''El-Arish plan''. Which includes wide Jewish settlement in the area between the eastern beach , from the town El-Arish ( that was identified by several explorers with the scriptual town Sukkot) eastward and onward further, northward and passes the township Rafiah and the line which isolates today between Sinai desert and the Negev beach, in tandem to the middle sea coastline.
By the year of 1906 the British determined the boundary between Sinai and the Negev : From Rafiah in the north to Taba in the south.
This boundary was therefor between the British (Sinai) and the Turks in the Israel. In world war I, 1914-1918 the British conquerd Israel, and in the independence war the Negev was conquerd from the Egypt.
At the begining of the forty's, after the begining of the second world war, information about the abusement of the Germans in Jews firstly arrived. Later, about practical murder – but no one described to himself the extent of the calamity that was about to happen to the European Judaism. The opposite, the general thought was that this war will end soon and at least million until million and half Jews will come to Israel, and there is a need to take care for a place to live and to wark for them. Work then was – agriculture, work in the land. No one thought that there will be a holocaust. No one thought that six million Jews will be murderd by the Natzies.