Tourism development

Friends of the Jahalin volunteers promote a different kind of tourism in the northern Judean Desert: community tourism based on genuine hospitality, human encounters, and mutual learning. Together with families from the Jahalin tribe from various communities in the region, we offer tourism products that generate income for the hosts while simultaneously allowing Israelis and travelers from all over the world to get to know Bedouin culture, the desert landscape, and life in the region up close.

This move is both economic and social: it strengthens the legitimacy of the communities, showcases the cultural diversity of the region, and creates another way of connecting - not through headlines, but through encounters, hospitality, and food.

Bedouin communities offer a basket of tourist services with host families, including accommodation, meals, tours, and workshops as needed. Friends of the Jahalin volunteers, in collaboration with the communities, will help you organize family events or events for the general public in the hospitality tents - cultural evenings, workshops, and traveler meetings. Professional guides are available for visits and training throughout the area, from spot visits, through mounted tours and observation, to desert hiking trails that include stops at the communities so that meeting hosts is a natural part of the route and not a separate “extra.”

You can spend the night in a tent, enjoy the quiet desert atmosphere, a warming fire in winter and a pleasant breeze in summer, and start the morning with hot tea and a conversation about life in the desert. The accommodation includes a variety of traditional, vegetarian and meat meals with local flavors, stews, fresh salads, hot bread, and a generous culture of hospitality. It can be adapted to groups and upon prior request.

You can go on a day trip by jeep among the Jahalin communities spread out in the desert, and visit natural and scenic sites in the Dead Sea and desert area: observation points, wadis, seasonal springs, and hiking trails.