Bedouin

Activists and supporters of the Druze community in Israel protest against the national-state law recently passed by the Knesset for its ostensible discrimination against the community, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on August 4, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

August 20, 2018, 8:39 am

Druze protest nation-state law in seventh petition to High Court

Appellants say legislation creates 'race-based discrimination,' warn it will cause a growing rift in society, 'give voice to extremism, nationalism, sectarianism'

By Tamar Pileggi and TOI staff

IDF chief of staff, Gadi Eisenkot (R), visits the tomb of Sheikh Amin Tarif in the village of Julis on August 17, 2018. (IDF spokesman)

August 18, 2018, 9:21 am

IDF chief hails minority troops amid effort to allay anger over Jewish-state law

Gadi Eisenkot says Druze soldiers increasingly integrated, Bedouin recruitment up 30% this year; tells community leaders defending Israel a 'shared responsibility'

By TOI staff

An unrecognized Bedouin village in the northern Negev (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash 90)

August 14, 2018, 3:28 am

Israel approves construction of housing for Bedouin, disabled populations

Town of Ir Ovot to include 500 homes for Bedouin residents; 20 percent of units in Shibolet and Daniel communities earmarked for people with disabilities

By JTA

Police at the scene of a deadly shooting in a Bedouin town near Beersheba on August 12, 2018. (Police spokesperson)

August 12, 2018, 5:58 am

Woman gunned down outside home in northern Negev

Victim of shooting in Bedouin village near Beersheba pronounced dead at scene; police reportedly suspect family dispute

By TOI staff

Illustrative: The High Court of Justice in session. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

August 7, 2018, 4:36 pm

Israeli Arab leaders petition High Court against ‘racist’ nation-state law

Latest judicial appeal alleges controversial legislation reeks of colonialism, is inconsistent with international norms and 'massively harms human rights'

By Tamar Pileggi

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked at the Supreme Court hall in Jerusalem on August 2, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

August 6, 2018, 12:59 pm

Justice minister warns of ‘earthquake’ if High Court overturns Jewish state law

Ayelet Shaked says top bench does not have the authority to strike down controversial legislation passed as quasi-constitutional Basic Law

By Tamar Pileggi

Illustrative: Bedouin IDF soldiers seen in a tent they set up in a field near the Gaza border in southern Israel, on July 6, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

August 5, 2018, 10:49 pm

Bedouin petition High Court claiming Jewish nation-state law is illegal

Joining the Druze and other minorities, petitioners demand the controversial legislation be annulled or changed to apply equally to all Israeli citizens

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Illustrative: Israeli police officer checks driving licenses (Uri Lenz/FLASH90)

August 4, 2018, 10:02 am

Kid caught behind wheel says he was driving brother to bathroom

Father in southern Israeli Bedouin village tells police he had no idea his children had taken the car

By TOI staff

People participate in the annual Gay Pride parade in central Jerusalem, under heavy security on August 3, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

August 1, 2018, 8:06 am

Complaint filed after Israeli news site column calls for killing gays

Israel National News removes opinion piece and apologizes after article likens LGBT community, far left and radical feminists to Amalek, the biblical enemy of the Jewish people

By TOI staff

Palestinian children line up before the early start of classes at a school in the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank on July 16, 2018. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP)

July 17, 2018, 2:16 pm

Bedouin kids go back to school early in protest of village’s demolition

Measure an attempt to stymie the razing of Khan al-Ahmar, where classes had been slated to start in September

By AFP

Illustrative image of three Bedouin women making pita on May 9, 2006. (Nati Shohat /Flash90)

July 10, 2018, 10:14 pm

PM vows zero tolerance for polygamy despite widespread flouting of law

Netanyahu stand comes after committee suggests allowing multiple marriages in exceptional circumstances

By TOI staff

A boy walks through the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, near the Jerusalem-Dead Sea highway, on April 13, 2018. (Yaniv Nadav/ Flash90)

July 3, 2018, 10:58 pm

UN concerned over expected demolition of West Bank village

High Commissioner for Human Rights says destruction of Bedouin town Khan al-Ahmar would be a violation of international law

By AP and TOI staff

June 18, 2018, 2:01 pm

Naomi Chazan

A Bedouin village can model the peace process

Israeli and Palestinian leaders should take note of the conflict in Khan al-Ahmar, and write its lessons large

A screenshot from a video of clashes between police and residents of the southern Bedouin town of Rahat on May 25, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

May 26, 2018, 9:42 pm

Probe opened after video shows cop slapping Bedouin during arrest

Justice Ministry announces investigation into Rahat traffic stop that turned violent, as hundreds protest police's 'untrue' version of events

By TOI staff

May 25, 2018, 11:45 pm

2 cops hurt after being attacked by mob with rocks, clubs in Bedouin town

Police set upon by dozens of Rahat residents after stopping a driver for traffic offenses; video appears to show officer slapping detained man

By TOI staff