On 13 January 2007, an Israeli farmer named Shai Dromi (born 1959, Hebrew: שי דרומי) shot and killed Khaled el-Atrash, an Israeli Arab Bedouin, after the latter entered his farm without permission.

[1] On 15 July 2009, he was acquitted of manslaughter by an Israeli court, but convicted on charges of illegal possession of weapons.

Dromi's farm is near Meitar in southern Israel, an area plagued by property theft.

"[citation needed]When police arrived, Dromi was administering first aid to the intruder, a Bedouin, Khaled el-Atrash, who later died.

Dromi was arrested and imprisoned for a month and later restrained from returning to his farm afterwards requiring volunteers to continue its maintenance.