ISRAEL

Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.

Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.

Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.

Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.

MR. & MRS. PHILIP KATZ

IRVING LARKY

JULIUS STOBINSKY

LOU & ESTHER STYBEL

SYBIL EISENSHTADT

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

MR. & MRS. JULES DONESON

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to all
our friends
and relatives.

to all
our friends
and relatives.

LOU & MAX PINES

HARRY & ANDREA POTACH
JASON, STEPHANIE & BRANDON

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A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family.
THE GARTNERS
ARNOLD, DIANE, JESSICA & JOSEPH

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I wish my family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

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to all
our friends
and relatives.

to all
our friends
and relatives.

JACK, MARCIA &
CYNTHIA KLAIN

NATHAN & SONIA NOTHMAN

A Bedouin tableau.

Museum Offers
Nomad Memorial

PATRICIA GOLAN

Special to The Jewish News

To All Our
Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,
health and prosperity.

MARSHA, HARRY, EMILY &
JENNIFER EISENBERG

May the coming year be
one filled with health,
happiness and
prosperity for all our
friends and family.

JACK & MIRIAM SHENKMAN
& FAMILY

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A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family.

BOB, MAUREEN, SANDY & MICHELLE SHAPIRO

A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family.
EMMA LAZAROFF SCHAVER
ISAAC SCHAVER

May the New Year Bring
To All Our Friends
and Family — Health,
Joy, Prosperity
and Everything
Good in Life.

CHARLOTTE & HERBERT MITNICK

museum dedicated to
the Bedouin culture
may seem like a con-
tradiction in terms, for how
does one preserve a nomadic
way of life which is, by defini-
tion, impermanent?
Nevertheless, in strikingly
realistic exhibits, the fast-
disappearing culture of this
resilient desert people is be-
ing preserved in the Museum
for Bedouin Culture in the
northern Negev.
The museum, the only one
of its kind in the world,
recreates the rich and colorful
heritage of a people who
migrated from Arabia to this
region over 600 years ago.
Theirs is also a vanishing
heritage, for the realities of
life in a modern political state
have meant that the Bedouin
are slowly moving from goat-
skin tents to modern homes.
In a deliberate, and sometime
controversial policy, the
Israeli government has for
many years offered monetary
and land compensation to
Bedouin who choose to settle
in specially-built townships.
The inexorable process of ur-
banization — or sedenteriza-
tion, as it is more often call-
ed — may well mark the end
of the Bedouins' nomadic
culture.
Perched on a hilltop over-
looking Kibbutz Lahav and
the surrounding desert, the
museum hosts over 5,000
visitors each month. Tours
are conducted in Hebrew,
English and Arabic and many
of the visitors are themselves
Bedouin.
The exhibits are divided in-
to two distinct sections — one
on the Bedouin of the Negev
and the other the Bedouin of
the Sinai. Each has its own
life-style, dictated by differing
available resources.
Various aspects of Bedouin