Twenty camels. This was the "loot," as of early this afternoon, of a project begun this morning by the Green Patrol and the Negev Mountain Regional Council to collect stray camels from the southern highways. A stray camel was the cause of an accident last week in which four members of one family from Dimona were killed.
The 20 camels will be quarantined, and those found to have been smuggled in from Egypt or otherwise not vaccinated or ownerless will be destroyed. Council head Shmulik Rifman told Arutz-7 that the goal is to make sure that local Bedouin watch over their camels. He estimated that there are currently about 4,000 camels in the Negev. His talk with Arutz-7 was briefly interrupted when he received word of a gathering of Bedouin trying to thwart the project.
The 20 camels will be quarantined, and those found to have been smuggled in from Egypt or otherwise not vaccinated or ownerless will be destroyed. Council head Shmulik Rifman told Arutz-7 that the goal is to make sure that local Bedouin watch over their camels. He estimated that there are currently about 4,000 camels in the Negev. His talk with Arutz-7 was briefly interrupted when he received word of a gathering of Bedouin trying to thwart the project.