Hebrew You » donkey http://hebrewyou.com All about you and Hebrew University in Jerusalem Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:41:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Visiting the Bedouin http://hebrewyou.com/2009/12/07/visiting-the-bedouin/ http://hebrewyou.com/2009/12/07/visiting-the-bedouin/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:23:54 +0000 Deena Levenstein http://hebrewyou.com/?p=428 How interesting to get a glimpse into someone else’s life, especially when it’s so different from your own. Amnon (I’m not sure he actually has a last name – you know those people) gives tours all over the country and, according to him, he’s one of the only Jewish Israelis who know the Arabic dialect that the Bedouin in the Judean Desert speak. And so they are friends and he sets it up so you can go visit with them in their homes. AKA, their tents. He explains different things to you like about their knives, their tea ceremonies, their music… Here is a video of the dad playing his string instrument and singing to us.

The son, Yousouf, came down to meet us by their water cystern (I think it's called). The structures ahead of him are their tents.

The son, Yousouf, came down to meet us by their water cistern (I think it's called). The structures ahead of him are their tents.

The men and women sleep separately (yet somehow they succeed in having children). The women are worked so hard, milking gallons of milk every day, making cheese and I guess other things like cooking and cleaning, that they have a shorter life expectancy than the men – the opposite of most cultures I’ve heard of. I’m not jealous. But here is their view. Jealous of that?

Minus the jeep, of course.

Minus the jeep, of course.

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