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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]
Bedouins are concentrated in the Beqaa Governorate, although they form a minority there. Many Lebanese people from all over Lebanon have some Arab Bedouin origins, since Arabs migrated to Lebanon from Yemen & Saudi Arabia. The Ghassanids were Christian Bedouins who played a huge role in the genetic admixture of the Lebanese people.
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]
Under state education, Israeli families are directed to choose a public school based on their student's primary language as well as their religious affiliation. [citation needed] There are four main Israeli schooling sectors: Arabic-language schools, Haredi Jewish schools, government-managed secular schools, and government-managed religious schools. [6]
The rescue from Gaza of hostage Qaid Farhan Alkadi, who belongs to the Bedouin community in Israel, has put the focus on a minority group that has largely existed on the margins of Israeli society ...
Jewish parents have formed an association to support their schoolchildren. Muslim parents recently did the same as Mideast tensions reach the schoolhouse.
The arrival of Bedouins and other Muslims led to the gradual replacement of the native Samaritan population, with some Samaritans possibly converting to Islam, while others joined other Samaritan communities, notably in Nablus. [40] Bedouins also settled in the area around Sebastia, leading to a predominantly Muslim population there. [40]
When students are targeted because they are—or are perceived to be—Jewish, Muslim, Arab, Sikh, or any other ethnicity or shared ancestry, schools must act to ensure safe and inclusive ...