A Law Bedouin. Book printed on quality paper. All the pages in the book have nice borders and are replete with ...

A Law Bedouin. Book printed on quality paper. All the pages in the book have nice borders and are replete with photos of the Bedouin community in Palestine. The title page bears an owner notation: "From the library of Dr. Shlomo ben Elkana."
Shlomo Aryeh Ben Elkana [1921-1993] was a researcher of historic mysteries from the era of the yishuv. He was an expert at locating missing persons, and the founder of Agudat Eita"n. Some of his most prominent successes iwas finding the burial site of Moshe Lazarowitz, finding the body of Chaim Yaari, and disclosing the burial sites of the 13 soldiers killed in the battle for the Achziv Bridge.
His crowning success was the discovery of the body of Avshalom Feinberg, the Nili member who had been buried for fifty years in the sand dunes of Rafiach. Feinberg disappeared in 1917, as he fled the Turks in the sand dunes of the Sinai desert near Rafiach. Many attempts were made to find his body, primarly in the period soon after his death, by other Nili members and the British. In the beginning of the 1930s, engineer Binyamin Ran found his grave, but it was never definitively identified. After the Six Day War, when the IDf captured the area where Feinberg was killed, the mystery was solved by Shlomo Ben Elkana. He found a skeleton at the end of 1967, which was identified as the remains of Avshalom Feinberg. Feinberg was transferred to Mt. Herzl in a military ceremony. [Supposedly Feinberg died with a date in his pocket. After his death, a date tree grew over his body. This tree drew Ben Elkana  to Feinberg's body. That place is still called "Dekel Avshalom" - Avshalom's Date Tree.] The discovery of the skeleton and its transfer cleansed the reputation of Yosef Lishinsky from the claims that he had murdered Avshalom. As part of its investigations regardless of Elkana contact with the Bedouin community in Israel, and some discoveries were made following the ties with this community.
Cardboard and cloth binding. 25 cm. Fine condition.