In the early 1950s, Bedouin of the Jahalin tribe were relocated from the Tel Arad area of the Negev in southern Israel to the West Bank. The displaced Bedouins contracted leases with Palestinian landowners for land in the area where the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim would later be built, and there they settled. From mid-1951 many of the Jahalin registered as Palestine refugees with UNRWA and headed for the year-round surface waters of Wadi Qelt in the central West Bank. There, they established seasonal migration patterns along the valley between Jericho and Jerusalem and traded at the Jerusalem livestock market. Others remained in the south of the West Bank.