Kuseife (Hebrew: כְּסֵיפָה‎, Kseifa; Arabic: كسيفة‎) is a Bedouin town (local council) in the Southern District of Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the population of Kuseife was 10,300 in December 2006. Kuseife's jurisdiction is 13,692 dunams (~13.7 km²). Kuseife was founded in 1982 as part of a government project to settle Bedouins in permanent settlements.