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Zarzir

Zarzir (, ), also known as Beit Zarzir, is an Arab local council located west of the city of Nazareth in the Northern District of Israel. In , it had a population of , consisting of five Bedouin tribes, Mazarib, Grifat, Haib, Jawamis, and Eyadat.

Monument to the Bedouin Soldier

A few kilometres away, at HaMovil Junction, there is a memorial to the Bedouin soldiers of the IDF killed since 1948, 230 of them by 2022. The Monument to the Bedouin Soldier (sometimes translated a Fighter or Warrior), established at a site close to Bedouin and other Israeli Arab towns, was inaugurated on Independence Day in 1993 by then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The memorial includes a museum of Bedouin heritage and a garden with medicinal herbs.

See also

References

  • Dr. Tomer Mazarib, The Integration Process of the Bedouin population into Arab Villages and Towns in the Galilee: Historical, Social and Cultural Aspects from the beginning of the 18th Century to the end of the 20th Century (Haifa: University of Haifa Press, 2016).

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