Fayez Abou Souhaiban, Head of the local council of Rahat municipality, gestures before a map of the area as he gives an interview with AFP at his office in Rahat, a Bedouin town in Israel's southern Negev region, on June 8, 2021. - The Bedouin belong to the community of Israeli Arabs, descendants of the Palestinians who remained on their land when Israel was founded in 1948, and live in majority in the arid Negev in the south of the country, on the fringes of Israeli society. Mansour Abbas, leader of the conservative Islamic party Raam and a champion of the Bedouin cause, became a political kingmaker by supporting a new governing coalition which ousted Israel's longest serving prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in exchange for a $9.1 billion pledge to tackle inequalities in Israel's Arab community, the freezing of the demolition of houses in Bedouin areas, and government recognition of three Bedouin villages. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP)