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The Negev Bedouin (Arabic: بدْو النقب, Badwu an-Naqab; Hebrew: הבדואים בנגב , HaBedu'im BaNegev) are traditionally pastoral nomadic Arab tribes (), while some are of Sub-Saharan African descent [7], who until the later part of the 19th century would wander between Hijaz in the east and the Sinai Peninsula in the west. [8]
The Bedouins' ethos comprises courage, hospitality, loyalty to family and pride of ancestry. Bedouin tribes were not controlled by a central power, like a government or empire, but rather were led by tribal chiefs. Some chiefs exercised their power from oases, where merchants would organise trade through the territory controlled by the tribe.
According to the Israel Land Administration, Negev Bedouin claim area 12 times bigger than that of Tel Aviv. [10]According to Arnon Sofer, the Bedouin make up about 2% of the Israeli population, but the unrecognized Bedouin communities spread on a vast territory and occupy more than 10 percent of Israel – north and east to Be'er Sheva.
The Bedouin community is part of the Arab minority in Israel. The larger Arab community in Israel, also known as Palestinian citizens of Israel, make up some 20% of the country's population. They have citizenship, but the traditionally nomadic Bedouin community is particularly impoverished and has suffered from neglect and marginalization.
At HaMovil Junction in the Lower Galilee, not far from Nazareth, there is a memorial to the Bedouin soldiers of the IDF fallen since 1948, 230 of them by 2022. [1] The Monument to the Bedouin Soldier (sometimes translated a Fighter or Warrior), established at a site close to Bedouin and other Israeli Arab towns, was inaugurated on Independence Day in 1993 by then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. [1]
Bedouins of the Negev desert face rockets from Gaza and discrimination and arrest by Israel. They seek safety as the war energizes the far right. 'The Bedouins are being whipped from both sides ...
Galilee Bedouin (Arabic: بدو الجليل; Hebrew: בדואי גלילי) are Bedouin living in the Galilee region of Northern Israel. In contrast to Negev Bedouin, Galilee Bedouin come from the Syrian desert. [1] As of 2020, there are about 50,000 Galilee Bedouin, [1] living in 28 recognized settlements and also living in mixed cities with ...
Most Bedouins live in the 4,700-square-mile Negev, which before Israel’s founding in 1948 was home to some 92,000 Bedouins. Only 11,000 remained after the Arab-Israeli war that followed.