JERUSALEM The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor warned Israel that the planned demolition of a Bedouin village in the West Bank m
Israeli settlers and army personnel have united against Bedouins in the Jordan Valley — leaving Bedouins scared for their lives.
Israel’s Negev Bedouins and Arabs are on the margins — and yet, paradoxically, they form the heart of Israel.
“Negev” in Hebrew, “an-Naqab” in Arabic. It means dry. It also means South. The Negev desert covers more than one half of Israel’s land space. Like all deserts, it is enchanted, apparently barren and arid yet in reality teeming with life and endowed with natural beauty that is at once mystical and tangible.
The stabbing was a nationalistically motivated terror attack, the Shin Bet said in a statement.
JERUSALEM — An incident in which a Bedouin teacher ran over a police officer during demonstrations in an unauthorized Bedouin village over home demolitions was not terrorism, an investigation reportedly has found. Police shot and killed Yacoub Abu al Kiyan, 50, as he attempted to drive through the demonstrations in January in the village…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court ordered the state to release the body of a Bedouin teacher who ran over a police officer during demonstrations in an unauthorized Bedouin village over home demolitions. Police shot and killed Yacoub Abu al Kiyan, 50, as he attempted to drive through the demonstrations on the way to work….
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli policeman and a Bedouin Israeli were killed in the unauthorized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, where Israeli forces were demolishing several homes. Arab-Israeli lawmaker Ayman Odeh, head of the Arab Joint List, also was injured in the head and back by sponge-tipped bullets fired by Israeli forces during the clashes…
Police in Israel said an Arab Israeli on Wednesday rammed his car into a group of policemen in the southern Negev region, killing one before being shot dead, though a rights activist who was present disputed it was an attack.
An organization advocating Jewish-Arab coexistence has raised more than $18,500 in a crowdfunding drive for a Bedouin Israeli who was beaten by off-duty police officers.