Marriage of convenience?

By LINDA GRADSTEIN
December 13, 2017 16:16

Recent enforcement of the law against polygamy in Israel is raising questions about its practice in Beduin society




Children in the unrecognized village of Wadi al-Na’am

Children in the unrecognized village of Wadi al-Na’am. (photo credit: LINDA GRADSTEIN)

 FATIMA (NOT her real name), a Beduin woman from a community close to Beersheba, was forced to marry her cousin before she even finished high school.

She told her parents that she didn’t want to marry him, both because she would be his second wife and because she didn’t like him, but they ignored her wishes. Fatima dropped out of school and quickly became pregnant.

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