{"id":2967,"date":"2015-10-05T21:09:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jahalin.org\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2015-10-05T21:09:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:09:07","slug":"haaretz-tracking-terrorists-smugglers-just-like-bedouin-do-judy-maltz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/?p=2967","title":{"rendered":"[Haaretz] Tracking Terrorists and Smugglers Just Like the Bedouin Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>This article was originally published in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/science\/.premium-1.678558\" target=\"_blank\">Haaretz<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 October 5, 2015\u00a0<\/strong>[Photo by\u00a0Tal Shofman-Schejter]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By Judy Maltz<\/p>\n<p>SALAMEH, Upper Galilee \u2013 Ziad Sawaid, a Bedouin tracker, bends down and draws a circle in the earth with his stick. After a brief examination, he rules: \u201cIt\u2019s not the footprint of a goat. Not a human footprint either. This one belongs to a wild boar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bedouin\u2019s legendary skills at sighting and deciphering imprints on the ground, often indiscernible to the average eye, are put to use in the Israeli army, where many Bedouin volunteers dominate the ranks of trackers patrolling the borders. Passed down from generation to generation and honed through years in the outdoors, this sixth sense has helped foil many attempts by terrorists and smugglers to infiltrate into Israel over the years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Article continued on Haaretz.com:<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/science\/.premium-1.678558\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/science\/.premium-1.678558<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published in\u00a0Haaretz\u00a0\u2013 October 5, 2015\u00a0[Photo by\u00a0Tal Shofman-Schejter] By Judy Maltz SALAMEH, Upper Galilee \u2013 Ziad Sawaid, a Bedouin tracker, bends down and draws a circle in the earth with his stick. After a brief examination, he rules: \u201cIt\u2019s not the footprint of a goat. Not a human footprint either. This one &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[58,122,284,311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}