Lt. Col. Amos Yarkoni, also known as Abd El-Amin Hajer, was a Bedouin officer in the Israeli Defense Forces, one of six Israeli Arabs to receive the IDF's highest honor, the Order of Distinction. He was a commander in the Givati unit. Bedouin resting at Mount Sinai Bedouin, derived from the Arabic , a generic name for a desert-dweller, is a term generally applied to Arab nomadic pastoralist groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via the Western Desert, Sinai, and... The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (Hebrew: צבא ההגנה לישראל Tsva Ha-Haganah Le-Yisrael ([Army] Force [for] the Defense of Israel), often abbreviated צהל Tsahal, alternative English spelling Tzahal, is the name of Israels armed forces (army, air force and navy). ... The Israeli Arabs, or 1948 Palestinians, are those Arabs who remained inside the borders of what would become Israel after 1948, when most Arabs fled the country in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War (see also Nakba). They make up roughly 20% of Israels population. ...

References

• Katz, Sam, and Ronald Volstad. Israeli Elite Units Since 1948. Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd., 1988