Lakiya, Israel • On Hadra al-Faqira’s wedding anniversary, just weeks after she gave birth to a daughter, her husband walked out and took a second wife.
She hasn't seen him since he moved down the road in their dusty Bedouin town and started a new family, with seven more children.
"I can't bear the thought of her," al-Faqira said of the second wife. "He destroyed my household when he started another."
Although Israel outlawed polygamy decades ago, it's widespread in the impoverished Bedouin sector.
Israel is now trying to end the old custom, for the first time prosecuting suspected Bedouin polygamists.