About friends Jahalin

"Friends of the Jahalin" is a volunteer group that was established in 2017 to raise awareness of the situation of the Jahalin communities in the Judean Desert, and to promote their status by agreement while providing full equality of rights and opportunities to the members of the tribe. The group is not a political body, and its members represent the entire political spectrum in Israel, from the right and the left, including residents of the Israeli settlement in Merhav Adumim and Gush Etzion. For this reason the group does not try to promote a specific political solution. The group has enshrined on its banner full equality of rights for the Jahalin communities in the Judean desert, and rejects any reality where under the same government different populations will have different rights. The group deals with helping the tribal members in their survival hardships, in dealing with selective enforcement and harassment, as well as encouraging employment, livelihood and help in unanswered medical cases.