A far-right Israeli activist has created an armed rangers unit in the Negev desert amid heightened Jewish-Arab tensions in the area, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Thursday. Almog Cohen, a former policeman and a regional coordinator of the far-right anti-Palestinian party Otzma Yehudit, said he established the armed civilian unit to “save the Negev from problematic absence of personal security”. Cohen had in the past expressed an intention to recruit armed Israeli men with a valid gun license in order to patrol the Negev, a region with a large Palestinian Bedouins community, which suffe…