Bedouins in the Negev desert have to make way for a new district – Israel

2023-08-10 09:00:00

The shepherd dogs are off work today. It’s 38 degrees in the south of the Negev desert, the sheep in the enclosure are crowding to the water trough, a stretched cloth offers them shade. Nobody here in the village of Ras Jrabah, which has a population of 500, knows the sheep as well as Haj Frej Al-Hawashle. The 85-year-old Bedouin never went to school, his class was the flock of sheep, which he had to look after as a child and drove far beyond the hills of the desert.