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Kann News @Kann_news Nov 9, 2022: A., the father of the girl who was sexually attacked in the south, and after the sentence to the attacker: 'I did not expect anything from the court. They are looking to relieve minorities [Arabs] and not thoughtful of deterrent and the victims. The state has abandoned its children. I do not live with confidence at all, but in the intention of all the time, why wouldn't this happen again with such penalties?' @Mayarachlin. ____Ilana Curiel, 5 years in prison for a young man who sexually assaulted a 10-year-old, in a case that rocked...

Israelis urged to return home for fear that peninsula will become launching pad for terror attacks as police abandon posts, facing increasing violence. Concern is mounting in Israel over reports that the Egyptian police force has abandoned the Sinai Peninsula in face of growing Beduin violence, and that the territory will turn into a breeding ground for global jihad. According to information that has arrived in Israel, Egyptian police authorities have abandoned dozens of police stations throughout the peninsula after they were attacked by Beduin armed with missiles and assault rifles. This concern was behind Israel’s decision two weeks ago...

Although Israeli roads are usually empty on Yom Kippur, there are always some emergencies that demand getting on the road, which inevitably means the risk of having your car pelted with stones. The Al-Huzayil family from the Bedouin city of Rahat, who had to get a 16-year old member of the family to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba Saturday morning, experienced a barrage of stones on their way back from the hospital. The family followed the Magen David Adom paramedics, who arrived at the house to take the teenage girl to the hospital. "The main highway was actually quiet...

Dec. 22, 2004 1:29 | Updated Dec. 22, 2004 16:30 The Druse & Jewish soul searching By AMNON RUBINSTEIN Azzam Azzam, an Israeli-Arab jailed in Egypt since 1996 after being convicted for spying for Israel, surrounded by family members, arrives to his village of Mughar in northern Israel, Sunday Dec. 5, 2004. Photo: AP Barely did we have time to catch our breath after the release of Azzam Azzam from Egypt than we were jolted out of our euphoria by news of the deaths of five Beduin soldiers killed in the bombing of the Rafah outpost. Both cases involve non-Jewish...

The Shin Bet, in collaboration with the Southern District Police, uncovered a terror cell two months ago operating out of the southern Beduin town of Tel Sheva, which planned to kidnap and kill an IDF soldier, it was released for publication on Tuesday. According to the police, six residents of Tel Sheva, located near Omer, planned to kidnap an IDF soldier, kill him and then use the body as a bargaining chip in negotiations to release Palestinian security prisoners being held in Israeli prisons. The group was allegedly working together with Hamas members from the Gaza Strip and was supposed...

Tugging at one of the legs of his polyester trousers, Dr. Khadar Kunan, the stout pharmacist who runs one of two clinics in the destitute Mawasi marshlands of the Gaza Strip, declares: "Just as you cannot fit two legs into this pant leg, you cannot fit two states in this land." Kunan's is not only an appeal for a bi-national state – which would end the prison-like conditions endured by the forgotten Mawasi Palestinians, wedged between the Gush Katif settlement bloc and the Mediterranean Sea. It is also a subtle plea for Israel not to evacuate the Gaza Strip's Jewish...

Peter Foster finds the Bedouin in north-west Iraq are increasingly irritated with their occupiers The Iraqi desert is a lawless place. On the advice of a British diplomat we travel armed, although not with a Kalashnikov. Our safety is to be guaranteed by a letter written by Sheikh Fahran al-Sadeed. He is the head of Iraq's Shamir tribe and, we are told, a very powerful man. We meet and drink Turkish coffee for about three hours. The sheikh, fresh from a meeting with Paul Bremer, the US administrator, spends most of the time enthusiastically denouncing "ignorant Americans" and foreigners in...

THE ARAB OF THE DESERT . . . In the very outset, at the first meeting with them, was found a universal clearness or hardness of belief, almost mathematical in its limitation, and repellent in its unsympathetic form. Semites had no half-tones in their register of vision. They were a people of primary colours, or rather of black and white, who saw the world always in contour. They were a dogmatic people, despising doubt, our modern crown of thorns. They did not understand our metaphysical difficulties, our introspective questionings. They knew only truth and untruth, belief und unbelief, without our...