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Justice to order the government to con-
nect the clinics to the electric grid.
The residents rely on shanty con-
struction for fear that if they build a
permanent foundation and roof, the
government will arrive with bulldozers.
During the first week of July, the
council for the unrecognized villages
reported that the Israeli government
demolished 25 Bedouin homes in
Attir-Im el Hiran. The council said
the reason had nothing to do with
the environment or the good of the
Bedouin: "The government wants to
relocate them again — so that in the
place of their village the government
can build a Jewish village. But the
people are not moving fast enough for
the government authorities."
The council said the Israeli govern-
ment issued the demolition orders two
years ago but waited to act. "Last night,
the authorities were at their home,
enjoying true Bedouin hospitality — a
lamb was slaughtered, with the under-
standing that this morning the people
will be willing to sign a compensation
agreement and move. Instead of an
agreement, instead of compensation,
they received bulldozers and demoli-
tions. The government does not supply
alternative accommodations; they have
nowhere to go; so now hundreds are
homeless in the Israeli desert."
According to Israel's Ministry of
Foreign Affairs (www.mfa.gov.i1),
increased population, industry and
consumption throughout the country
have caused major solid-waste prob-
lems. "To overcome this problem, Israel
is implementing a plan to shut down
Imam Kama! Abu Heniya of Tel
Sheva stands proudly in front of his
modest home in the first officially
recognized Bedouin village, set up
the government in 1968.
illegal dumps and replace them with
a few environmentally safe landfills as
well as facilitating a shift to low- and
non-waste technology, as stipulated in
its recently-enacted recycling law!'
The ministry says billions of shekels
have been allocated to enact change
over "four to five years" through
the Ministerial Committee for the
Advancement of Bedouin Affairs, con-
sisting of 10 government ministers.
The "Bedouin problem',' as officials
call it, is growing rapidly. Every 13 years
the Bedouin population doubles, driv-
ing up the rates of unemployment, pov-
erty and crime. Ben-Gurion University's
Robert Arnow Center for Bedouin
Studies is trying to change that.
"Remember the stranger, for you
are the stranger to the land:' Arnow
said. "This is a democracy. It can't be
a democracy for 80 percent — you
either are or you aren't. If you saw
a person who had fallen down, you
would go and help them up."
The question is whether the Israeli
government will offer that helping
hand to the Bedouin of the Negev.
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0 ace on Forbes' list of richest Americans, real estate manage-
ment guru Robert Arnow didn't have many people backing
him when he decided to set up the Center for Bedouin Studies
at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in southern Israel 10 years ago.
"It wasn't like there was a long line of people behind me to back me,
but I just kept at it," Arnow said in May at the 37th annual meeting of
the university's board of governors.
He knew there was a need to help the most underprivileged sector
of Israeli society. He wanted to give the Bedouin — men and women
— opportunities to study on a university level so they could give back to
Israel and their communities.
According to a BGU annual report, only 38 Bedouin, including one
woman, enrolled at the university between 1970 and 1990. But from
2004 to 2006, 71 Bedouin women and 92 Bedouin men received
bachelor's degrees from BGU. The number of Bedouin students receiv-
ing master's degrees is on the rise, and BGU graduated its first female
Bedouin physician this year.
Arnow said some of his ideas, such as the creation of a Bedouin stud-
ies center in 1997, set him apart. "I am pretty liberal," Arnow said. But
he said anyone who cares about the future of Israel and its people
should worry about the Bedouin.
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