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Em Ali, 68, is holding family-grown wheat in her hands. A mother of 5 boys and 6 girls, she is one of 19 children born from her parents. She lives in the unrecognised village of Sararat, in West Bank zone C (Israeli controlled), close to Jerusalem, the capital of the country. She is showing part of the self-grown wheat they traditionally crop on the land around the village. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..
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Em Ali, 68, is holding family-grown wheat in her hands. A mother of 5 boys and 6 girls, she is one of 19 children born from her parents. She lives in the unrecognised village of Sararat, in West Bank zone C (Israeli controlled), close to Jerusalem, the capital of the country. She is showing part of the self-grown wheat they traditionally crop on the land around the village. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel..