Zarzir

Zarzir, also known as Beit Zarzir, is an Arab local council located west of the city of Nazareth in the Northern District of Israel. In, it had a population of, consisting of five Bedouin tribes, Mazarib, Grifat, Haib, Jawamis, and Eyadat.

Monument to the Bedouin Soldier

A few kilometres away, at HaMovil Junction, there is a memorial to the Bedouin soldiers of the IDF killed since 1948, 230 of them by 2022. The Monument to the Bedouin Soldier, established at a site close to Bedouin and other Israeli Arab towns, was inaugurated on Independence Day in 1993 by then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The memorial includes a museum of Bedouin heritage and a garden with medicinal herbs.