Summary
A name Dinero records in two distinct uses: one of the seven pre-1948 Negev Bedouin macro-tribes (kabila), and, in Segev Shalom, the name the town’s Abid (African-origin) community calls itself (Settling for Less — The Planned Resettlement of Israel’s Negev Bedouin, PDF p.31, 70-71).
Details
- Before 1948 the Tarabeen were one of the seven macro-tribes of the Negev Bedouin, who together controlled four million dunams (PDF p.31); with the Tiyaha they moved into better grazing land further north, leaving the Azazmeh in the arid mountains of the interior (Marx 1967:9, as cited, PDF p.31).
- In Segev Shalom, the Abid community — beginning with the Masri Hamula, 120 households who moved in from Emek Sarah from 1987 — has grown rapidly since 2000, and in town its members call themselves “Tarabeen”; the Azazmeh view them as a separate community, with Shekhuna Bet as “their neighborhood” (PDF p.65, 70-71).
- Dinero’s 2007 survey respondents were 58 percent Azazmeh and 32 percent Tarabeen (PDF p.100). His 2007 analysis finds a vast aggregate social and economic disparity between the “True” Bedouin Azazmeh and the African-origin Tarabeen/Abid: the Tarabeen are more likely to raise animals and crops in town as an economic supplement, less likely to own high-end goods such as personal computers, and more likely to own the washing machine, TV and refrigerator as essentials of post-nomadic life rather than leisure goods (PDF p.102-104).
- The Tarabeen for the most part ceased relocating to the town over a decade before 2007, while Azazmeh arrivals continued (p=.02) (PDF p.102); among lower-income households the Tarabeen rate the town’s cleanliness, water, electricity and healthcare services higher than the Azazmeh do (PDF p.109).
- In Chapter 4’s education analysis, the education–employment correlation holds for Tarabeen members (p=.00) but not for the Azazmeh, and Azazmeh members are in general more educated than the Tarabeen (p=.05) (PDF p.143).
Related pages
Settling for Less — The Planned Resettlement of Israel’s Negev Bedouin, Azazmeh, Segev Shalom, Hamula