Israel's new consul general in San Francisco a Bedouin

It will probably go unnoticed by most mainstream media, but Israel's new consul general in San Francisco is a Bedouin, Ishmael Khaldi of Khawalid - population 450 - in the northern Galilee region. Of the more than one million Israeli Arabs, only 170,000 are Bedouins, many of whom were once nomadic desert dwellers. In recent years, Arab radicals in the Israeli parliament and Islamic movements who