• Introduction 5 minutes
Hold up a photo of a Jew and a Muslim praying in the same room
Ask campers:
• What they think they are seeing
• Where this might be taking place
• What surprises them, if anything?
Share that this is a photo taken in Israel in which people who are often portrayed as enemies are actually praying in the same place, even though they practice different religions.
• Zooming in card game 15 minutes
Break campers into 4 groups of 3.
Each group gets a set of Zoom cards.
Ask campers to arrange the cards so that each card is a zoom in on the previous card.
Bring groups back together to share how they arranged the cards.
Discussion:
• What did you notice as you placed each card?
• What did you see in the new card that you didn’t see in the previous card?
• What was one instance in which, when you placed the new card, you realized that you had misunderstood or not fully understood what was in the previous card?
Share that in the south of Israel, called the Negev, all different kinds of people live together. We are going to meet some of them today.
• Living together in the Negev 25 minutes
• Ask campers to sit on the floor in a circle.
• Lay out a map of Israel and ask campers if they know where the Negev region is and what they know about it.
• Divide campers into four groups of 3 (in the circle) for the True/False game. Game rules: Each group gets to go first. If they get it right they get a point. Go until all the groups have at least two turns.
Suggested Questions:
True or False?
✅ The animals raised by Bedouins, like chickens and sheep, are free-range and not kept in cages (such food usually costs 4 times more).
✅ Thanks to Bedouins, there are fewer fires. Often, before fall when the grass is dry, authorities ask Bedouin shepherds to graze in areas at risk of wildfires.
❌ All Bedouins live in tents in the desert. (In fact, most Bedouins in Israel live in houses. In unrecognized villages, they may use solar panels for electricity and even have internet.)
✅ To this day, there is a tradition where a man may marry up to four wives.
✅ The Bedouin tradition strongly values hospitality and generosity.
❌The Bedouin approach to water is based on digging wells.
✅ In every army unit there is a Bedouin tracker (because of their deep knowledge of nature and tracking skills).
✅ The most common name in Israel is Muhammad.
• When the game is complete:
• What was different than what they expected about life in Israel?
• What most interested them?
• Describe Bedouin life
• Video of Jewish/Arab school in the Negev
• Give a little background about the school
• Show video
• Answer any questions campers may have
• Ask campers to share impressions:
• What they noticed was different from their schools
• Where are the kids from different backgrounds alike/where are they different?
• What do you think it is like to be with kids everyday who are so different from you:
• What is cool about it?
• What might be challenging?
• Why they think people might want to send their kids or kids might want to go to a school like this
• Wrap up: Language game 10 minutes
In circle, put out cards with words in three languages (Hebrew, Arabic, English)
Take turns reading the cards and ask campers where they see similarities between the words.
Wrap up:
When we Zoom in and look at details, just like with the word cards, we see that even though there are differences between us, we also share links and similarities that we discover when we look closely.
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