(Golden Gate Xpress) Guadalupe Gonzalez - Ishmael Khaldi was Israel's first Bedouin diplomat, serving as deputy consul in San Francisco from 2007 to 2009, and came to speak at SF State about his experience as a minority in Israel. He said a lot of the younger Arab population is participating more in Israeli society and spoke about the Israeli government's attempts at integrating the Bedouin into modern society. "You can't make a shepherd who is a nomad living in a tent into a high-tech engineer overnight," he said.
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