Who are the Israeli Bedouins: Culture, Challenges, and Contributions

an Israeli bedin man was just freed by the Israeli Army after over 300 days of cruel captivity and AAS Terror tunnel in the godess chip but who are Israeli better ones let's explore Shalom my friends this is the K gers with Israel in five where we give you everything Israel in five minutes please like And subscribe if you have any questions or want to keep the conversation going please do so below in the comments bedin is an Arabic word meaning desert dweller and bedin is in General including Israeli bins were traditionally hundreds of years ago and thousands of years ago stretching back many many thousands of years were nomadic tribes wandering through the desert changing location depending on climate conditions food resources and of course water Israeli bins come from tribes that would be nomadic would travel between what we call Saudi Arabia today and the Sinai Peninsula that was their region that was their area those were the lands where they traveled through in order to find food and to find water they're in the middle of the desert so water was very very scarce and they needed to move quite often depending on Water Resources being available or moving when they dried up this is the way they lived their lives for thousands and thousands of years and separated into many different tribes and clans one of the things that they did to provide a profession for themselves so to speak was to um bring people through the desert they knew the desert literally like the back of their hand they were masters of the desert they were Experts of the desert and people who needed to travel through the desert who didn't know um the way or the ways of living uh even temporarily in the desert would hire them and uh travel with them using them as guides throughout the desert now again the bins they lived this way for thousands of years and then modernity came and the modern day world and countries forming in the Middle East uh in a place where only empires ruled for thousands of years and starting during the Ottoman rule of the Middle East bwin started to settle down that process continued under the Mandate given to the British after World War I and continued even more under Israeli rule uh after 1948 basically you can imagine these nomatic tribes living in the desert uh moving from place to place in the desert and then all of a sudden borders form around them and they're literally trapped inside these borders whoever was in Israel lived in Israel whoever was in Jordan lived in Jordan same thing with Egypt and so the borders that were imposed in the Middle East starting after World War I really impacted the lives of the BNS because it really forced them even more so to settle down and they became citizens of these country of these countries um today there are over 200,000 bins living in Israel they are full citizens get full rights Education Health Care everything else Israeli through and through bedin are Arabic their main language is Arabic they do learn Hebrew in schools um and their religion is Islam right so they are Arab Muslim Israelis right they're different than other Arab Israelis because they come from this bedin lifestyle this this bedin these bedin tribes right most to the bedin in Israel live in the neive in the desert in the south of Israel starting in the 1960s Israel started to build towns for them because traditionally even when they started to settle down the way that they lived was very very different they didn't lived in typical towns or typical cities they lived in kind of sprawled out Villages right using all kinds of found materials to create small homes for themselves they raised animals so they they had many many animals uh tens of thousands collect hundreds of thousands even um in their Villages they lived a very very simple life on the land close uh close to the land starting in the 1960s the late 1960s Israel started to build townships for them throughout the the negtive in total eventually seven of these towns were were were built the largest of them being Rahat and now today over half of the BNS in the negtive don't live um in these Villages they live in in towns that you drive through they look more or less like other Israel towns in the way that they're built and spread out and and laid out now one important thing about Israeli bedin to know is that they do go to the Army and because they know the desert so well um they are trackers and many of the the Israeli bans who go to the IDF who serveing the idea put on the uniform they will serve as trackers in Elite tracking units working along their borders looking for people infiltrating um maybe also Smugglers and all kinds of other people that Israel does not want in this country so it's an interesting interesting uh connection and reality that Israeli bins have here in Israel on some level they didn't mean to be Israelis right the the modern world closed in on them with the modern day borders that were created after World War I um on another level they're they're they're part of Israeli Society some of them serve in the in the IDF and more and more of them have been integrated into the general um Israeli Society if you go down south in Israel and specifically that specifically go to Bersa which is one of Israel's largest cities you will see BNS on the streets in the markets working in the stores uh in the hospitals right it's a it's a very kind of integrated City in that kind of way the man who was kidnapped by Kamas on October 7th who just got freed yesterday he was working as a security guard uh on a kibutz in a in a in a community along the in Israeli Community along the Gaza border um and he was captured uh taking hostage on October 7th and other better ones were taking hostage as well and other better ones were killed by Kamas terrorists on October 7th so though they are different than the typical Jewish Israeli in that they are bedin and they are Arab and they are Muslim they share the same faith and all of Israel celebrated yesterday at the news of the Fring of this Israeli bin man and we're so happy that he is now home with his family all the best and be well [Music]