Rescued Hostage Returns to World of Opportunities, Challenges for Israeli Bedouins

RAHAT, Israel—This week’s rescue of an Israeli hostage from a Gaza tunnel highlights a fact often obscured about the Jewish state: not everyone who lives there is Jewish. The rescued man, Qaid Farhan Alkadi, a 52-year-old Israeli citizen, is a Bedouin. The team that rescued him on Aug. 27, engaging in a shootout with Hamas terrorists at the entrance to the tunnel where Alkadi was held, was led by Shayetet 13, Israel’s naval commandos and the equivalent of the U.S. Navy SEALs. Alkadi, having lost weight but in good health, ran toward the commandos in the tunnel after his captors fled. They quickly led him to a truck and then put him into a helicopter, which took him to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba....