Beloved singer Idan Raichel, shared with his followers on social media yesterday about his difficult experiences from his travels in the Negev, when several times he was attacked by Bedouin drivers: “Twice in the last year – I was forced to go to the side of the road, by Bedouin, violent, threatening drivers. Very, fleeing from them, because I was in the feeling that in a moment I would be left without a car and nothing, “Yair Maayan, director general of the Bedouin Development and Settlement Authority in the Negev, spoke against him this morning (Wednesday).
“For six years I have been driving around the Negev every day, no Bedouin has ever taken me off the road,” said Maayan. The Bedouin drivers as wild drivers, precisely as someone who identifies with the Ethiopian community, there is no room for stigmas about an entire population. “
The director general of the Bedouin Development and Settlement Authority in the Negev added that, “There are wild drivers all over the country from all sectors, the traffic police take care of them and work hard and extensively in the Negev against traffic offenders. You must apologize immediately to the entire Bedouin society in the Negev. “