Historical Dictionary of Israel

BEDOUIN

Bedouin: translation

Traditionally nomadic Arab tribes for the most part originating in the Hejaz district of modern Saudi Arabia who traversed transnational boundaries. Communities today are found in Israel and theWest Bank, along withEgypt(almost exclusively in theSinai Peninsula) and in Jordan'sAravaDesert. In Israel, the Bedouin community of approximately 180,000 is divided into three geographic groupings. The vast majority—some 120,000—reside in theNegevDesert of southern Israel. Another 10,000 live in Israel's central region. And 50,000 Bedouin reside in the north. Since statehood, Israel's Bedouin population has increased tenfold due to a naturally high birthrate—about 5 percent—resulting from the Bedouin culture's traditional emphasis on large family size, combined with a significant drop in infant mortality and increased life expectancy resulting from access to modernhealthand medical services.
The Bedouin have tended to rely on two sources of advancement in Israeli society:educationand voluntary service in theIsrael Defense Forces. Education has been a key element in the improvement in the Bedouin's standard of living. The illiteracy rate among the Bedouin has dropped from 95 percent at the time of Israel's founding in 1948 to below 25 percent in 2005, despite the Bedouin culture's strong disinclination toward education for females.In 2006, Rania al-Oqbi became the first female Bedouin physician to graduate from an Israeli university (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev). Also in 2006, Ismail Khaldi, a former shepherd, became the first Bedouin to be appointed an Israeli envoy, becoming consul to San Francisco. The other principal avenue for social advancement for the Bedouin has been volunteer service in the IDF. Each year, between 5 and 10 percent of the Bedouin population of draft age volunteer for the Israeli army (unlikeDruzeand Circassian Israelis, they are not required by law to do so). Many Bedouin soldiers today serve with distinction in frontline fighting units alongside their Jewish counterparts and receive the financial and social benefits for doing so. Several Bedouin soldiers have been killed in battle and interroristattacks. Many Bedouin played an important part as volunteer trackers for theHaganain theWar of Independence(1948—49) and in special units established in the 1950s to stopfedayeenincursions fromJordan.
Despite an objective improvement in their standard of living, the status of the Bedouin in Israel remains problematic. Many Bedouin remain tied to a traditional way of life that is completely at variance with the realities of industrialized, 21st-century Israel. A particular area of dispute is the issue of land ownership, especially in the Negev Desert, where some Bedouin tribes insist on constructing semipermanent structures on their nomadic routes in the same manner as their people have done for generations, irrespective of modern Israeli laws and regulations pertaining to deeds, building permits, and the like. While numerous efforts have been made to find compromise solutions to such disputes, the danger of violent expressions of civil unrest involving more restive elements of the Negev Bedouin population has increased in recent years.

  1. bedouin—Bedouin translationAn Arab of the desert a nomad a wanderer....Dictionary of church terms
  2. bédouin—Bdouin bersetzungBeduine m Bdouin [bedw in] Substantif masculin Beduine masculinemBeduinin fmininem...Dictionnaire Francais-Allemand
  3. bedouin—[bedn]бедуин...Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь
  4. bedouin—[bedn]бедуин...Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь
  5. bedouin—бедуин...Англо-русский онлайн словарь
  6. bedouin—бедуин...Англо-русский онлайн словарь
  7. bedouin—n бедуин...Англо-русский словарь Лингвистика-98
  8. bedouin—Bedouin [bedn] nu plu s [z] илиem без измен.uбедуин...Англо-русский словарь Мюллера
  9. bedouin—сущ. бедуин...Англо-русский словарь общей лексики
  10. bedouin—сущ. бедуин...Англо-русский словарь общей лексики
  11. bedouin—n. бедуин...Англо-русский словарь редакция bed
  12. bedouin—n без змнemбедун...Англо-украинский словарь
  13. bedouin—бедун...Англо-український словник
  14. bedouin—n pl без змн бедун перен. кочвник циган....Англо-український словник Балла М.І.
  15. bédouin—adj fmem bdouine...Большой французско-русский и русско-французский словарь
  16. bédouin—m fem Bdouineбедуин [бедуинка]...Большой французско-русский и русско-французский словарь
  17. bedouin—[bedn] n pl тж. без измен. обыкн. Bedouin бедуин кочевник номад цыган...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
  18. bedouin—bedouin [bedn] n pl тж. без измен.i обыкн. iBedouin бедуин кочевник номад цыган...Новый большой англо-русский словарь II
  19. bedouin—bedn n pl тж. без измен.em обыкн. emBedouin бедуин кочевник номад цыган...Новый большой англо-русский словарь под общим руководством акад. Ю.Д. Апресяна
  20. bédouin—adj fm bdouine бедуинский...Новый французско-русский словарь
  21. bédouin—m f Bdouine бедуин бедуинка...Новый французско-русский словарь