Arab Israeli Mohammed Alnabari and Jewish Israeli Matan Yaffe received the 2023 IIE Victor J. Goldberg Prize for the peace-building work of Desert Stars, the organization they cofounded to bring a new generation of cross-tribal leadership to Israel’s southern Bedouin community.
Approximately 250,000 Arab Bedouins live in nine Bedouin municipalities and dozens of herding and farming villages throughout the Negev Desert. Tribal rivalries limit their interaction and cooperation. The birthrate is high, as are high-school dropout and unemployment figures.
