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Israel Appoints First Bedouin Envoy
(Ynet News) Asafa Peled - Ismail Khaldi, a 35-year old Bedouin shepherd from the village of Khawalid in the Zevulun Valley, will soon begin serving as Israeli consul in San Francisco, Israel's first Bedouin diplomat. "The Western democratic world has a lot to learn from Israel about democracy," says Khaldi. "If we've failed once and haven't managed to explain that Israel is a normal country, we have to try again and again and again until this changes. And it will change." "I grew up among Israeli Jews, mostly members of Kibbutz Kfar Hamaccabi. And they never made me feel different. I always felt equal. This is the Jewish state, but I am part of the country, and my identity is Israeli, not Palestinian," he added.