The Bedouin Arabs belong to a stream within Islam, but differ from other Arabs because of their family structure and unique culture as well as their settlement in the desert. Bedouin Arabs can be found in the nomadic tribes of the Middle East and North Africa, in countries such as Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon (Peters, 2009). The Bedouin society in the Negev is similar in some of its socio-demographic and cultural characteristics to other Arab Bedouin societies in the Middle East, including marriage among relatives, polygamy, living within the extended family, and traditional and patriarchal society. In addition, it has its own unique characteristics. The Bedouin population in the Negev numbers close to 220,000 people (The Knesset Research and Information Center, 2015).The Bedouin community belongs to a society that is characterized as a non-Western, Traditional, collective society. On the one hand, an individual's needs, interests, style of thinking, attitudes, beliefs, and values are compatible with those of the family or the tribe. On the other hand, the individual's behavior is shaped according to social norms (Dwairy, 2002). According to Dwairy, approximately 80% of the global population still lives within traditional-collective societies.Approximately half of the Bedouin population in the Negev lives in towns, and the other half lives in unrecognized settlements. People living in the unrecognized settlements live in tents without access to basic services such as electricity, paved roads, transportation, education, and health services. The Bedouin population in the Negev is characterized by difficult socio-economic conditions; 60% of Bedouin children in the Negev live below the poverty line. Within Bedouin society, there is a clear division of roles between men and women. This gender division begins during
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