Di saat [[Perang Kemerdekaan Israel]] pada tahun 1948, many Bedouin switched sides to join tentara Zionis dalam melawan invasi yang dilakukan oleh pasukan Arab regular.<ref>{{Citation | title = Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948 | url = http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/28043 | publisher = Canada Free Press | first = Dr. Norman | last = Berdichevsky | date = September 24, 2010}}.</ref>
[[Negev Bedouin]], aseorang minoritas Muslim minorityyang whichtermasuk includesdalam aboutsekitar 12% ofArab Israeli ArabsIsrael, tend to identify more assebagai Israelis than warga sipil Arab di Israel lainnya.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=New Identity/Identities Formulation in a Post-Nomadic Community: The Case of the Bedouin of the Negev| first =Steven | last = Dinero|publisher=National Identities|year=2004|volume= 6| issue = 3|pages= 261–75}}</ref> Many Negev Bedouins serve in the [[Israel Defense Forces]]. EachSetiap yeartahun, antara 5%–10% ofdari theorang Bedouin of draft age volunteer for the IDF (unliketidak seperti [[Druze]] dan [[Yahudi]] Israel; they aremereka nottidak requireddiminta byoleh lawhukum to do so<ref>{{Citation | url = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2024.html?countryName=Israel&countryCode=is®ionCode=me&#is | contribution = Field Listing: Military service age and obligation | publisher = CIA | title = World Factbook}}.</ref>).
Saat gerakan negara Arab Palestina dibentuk, Bedouins often perceived their tribe as their principal focus of identity, and they generally did not view themselves as a component of the emerging Palestinianidentitas identityPalestina.<ref name="shadows">{{Harvnb | Cohen | 2009 | pp = 73, 154}}.</ref>
Bedouins had long standing ties with nearby komunitas [[Yahudi]]. Orang-orang BedouinsBedouin ofdari [[Tuba-Zangariyye]] helpedmembantu defendmempertahankan thesekomunitas communitiesmereka dalam [[pemberontakan Arab di Palestina 1936–1939]]. Formal co-operation antara Yahudi dan Bedouin begandimulai pada tahun 1946, when tribal leader Sheik [[Hussein Mohammed Ali Abu Yussef]] of thedari [[al-Heib]] tribe sent more than 60 of his men to fight alongside pasukan Zionis, formingmemimpin theunit [[Pal-Heib]] unit of thedari [[Haganah]]. Pada saat [[Perang Arab-Israel 1948]], theunit Pal-Heib unitmempertahankan defendedkomunitas JewishYahudi communities in thedi [[Galilea Hulu]] melawan [[Suriah]]. Sheik Abu Yussef was quoted pada tahun 1948 as saying, "Is it tidak dituliskan dalam [[Al-Qur'an]] that the ties of neighbors are as dear as those of relations? Our friendship with the Yahudi goes back many years. We felt we could trust them and they learned from us too".<ref name="shadows"/><ref>{{Citation | newspaper = Palestine Post | title = Israel's Bedouin Warriors | first = Gene | last = Dison | date = August 12, 1948}}.</ref>
Maj Fehd Fallah, seorang Bedouin dari desa Saad di [[Dataran Tinggi Golan]] berkata dalam sebuah wawancara: "Ya, I have fought against Muslims di Gaza," ucapnya. "And I would fight again if I had to," lanjutnya. "Muslim Israel who don't serve in the IDF should be ashamed for not serving their country."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Sekkai|first=Rachid |title=Bedouin who serve in Israel's army|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8303634.stm |accessdate=22 June 2010|newspaper=BBC Arabic Service | date=2009-10-20}}</ref>
[[Ismail Khaldi]] adalah konsul deputi [[Bedouin]] pertama Negara Israel anddan thetingkat highest rankingtertinggi [[Muslim]] indalam thepelayanan Israeliluar foreignnegeri serviceIsrael.<ref name ="SFGate">{{Cite news|last= Kalman|first=Matthew|title=S.F.'s newest consul enjoys being Bedouin, proud to be Israeli | quote = Ishmael Khaldi, who began life as a nomad, is first Muslim envoy to rise through ranks|url=http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-11-24/news/17319376_1_israeli-arabs-arab-world-early-zionist-pioneers |accessdate=22 June 2010|newspaper=SF Gate | date=November 24, 2006}}</ref> Khaldi isadalah aseorang strongadvokat advocate ofkuat Israel. While acknowledging that the state of Israeli Bedouin minority isadalah nottidak ideal, he saidkatanya
{{Quote |Saya bangga menjadi warga Israel – bersama dengan warga Israel non-Yahudi lainnya yakni Druze, Bahai, Bedouin, Kristen dan Muslim, yang hidup dalam of the most culturally diversified societies dan hanya demokrasi benar di Timur Tengah. Seperti Amerika, Israelimasyarakat societyIsrael isjauh fardari from perfectkesempurnaan, butnamun let us deals honestly. By any yardstick you choose – educational opportunity, pengembangan economiekonomi, hak wanita dan gay, kebebasan berbicara and assembly, legislative representation – Israel's minorities fare far better than any negara lainnya di Timur Tengah.<ref>{{Citation | place = San Francisco | newspaper = Chronicle | month = March | year = 2009}}.</ref>}}
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