Support for the Bedouin community

Bedouins are a group of nomadic Arab-Muslim people who have historically inhabited the desert regions in North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and the Levant. Most Bedouins are animal herders who migrate into the desert during the rainy winter season and move back toward the cultivated land in the dry summer months. Bedouin society is tribal and patriarchal, typically composed of extended families that are polygamous. They live mostly in small villages and some small towns and rarely marry someone who is not Bedouin. EMDA (the Alzheimer’s Association of Israel) recently organised a one-day seminar/conference for professionals working with the Bedouin community in northern Israel. It is also planning programmes for people from Arabic and Bedouin communities in southern Israel and East Jerusalem which will focus on women in those communities who care for relatives with dementia. Details will follow when available