Individual #Negev_Desert__Negev  a desert in southern Israel
  instance of:  #desert
  part of:  #State_of_Israel__Israel__Yisrael__Zion__Sion  Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine
     part of:  #Middle_East__Near_East  the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to North Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; "the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization"

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