Bedouin tech firm hints at shift in Israel

Published Sun, Jan 10, 2016 · 09:50 PM

    Abu Qreinat, Israel

    A RESIDENT of a ramshackle sprawl of shacks and houses in the Negev Desert, Rabaa Al-Hawashleh is an unlikely worker in Israel's high-tech industry.

    Her mother is illiterate and her father drives a truck. The Bedouin village in which she lives does not have enough electricity at night to power the laptop she brings home for work once the battery runs out.