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Topic: Hanin Zoabi

March 27, 2013
7:20 pm

Naftali Bennett at a party meeting on March 18, 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Bennett says Erdogan is making Israel regret its flotilla apology

Jewish Home colleague Ayelet Shaked calls Turkish PM an ‘Islamist anti-Semite’

By Times of Israel staff

February 23, 2013
9:26 pm

Avi Mizrahi, outgoing commander of the IDF's Central Command (photo: Flash90)

18 attempts in four months to kidnap Israeli soldiers

Central Command chief says Hamas mainly behind upsurge; Palestinian prisoners plan protests Sunday after death of inmate through heart failure

By Yifa Yaakov

February 23, 2013
7:17 pm

Arab Israeli Islamist activists, community leaders and MKs march in Nazareth to show solidarity with Palestinian prisoners hunger-striking in Israeli prisons. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Arab MKs join Nazareth protest for Palestinian prisoners

Islamic Movement leaders warn of impending third Intifada, wave Palestinian flags with photos of hunger-strikers

By Yifa Yaakov

February 19, 2013
1:10 pm

The rabbi and the rock: Dov Lipman in his Knesset office (photo credit: Courtesy)

Dov Lipman’s rock solid struggle for a better Israel

The first US-born MK in 30 years discusses his improbable rise, and the endemic corruption in Israeli politics he and his newly empowered party insist they’ll tackle

By Raphael Ahren and David Horovitz

February 7, 2013
3:19 pm

Interior Minister Eli Yishai speaks during a Shas party meeting at the Knesset in June (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Yishai: Unless Lapid bends, he’ll be in the opposition

Shas chairman says his main concern is preventing a tear in Israeli society

By Ron Friedman and Stuart Winer

January 26, 2013
3:19 am

Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid poses with female members of his new political movement in November. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Next Knesset to receive boost in female power

Record 27 women win seats in elections, nearly a quarter of new legislature

By Yifa Yaakov and Ron Friedman

January 22, 2013
2:35 am

Nadia Hilou, pictured here at a cafe in Jaffa, is 18th on the Labor Party's list for Tuesday's elections. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

Israeli-Arab, female and headed for the Knesset

In an unprecedented breakthrough, Nadia Hilou (Labor), Nabila Espanioly (Hadash) and Hanin Zoabi (Balad) may all serve as MKs during the same term

By Michal Shmulovich

January 20, 2013
8:35 pm

An Arab Israeli woman walks past female IDF soldiers (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit/File)

Arab League tries to turn out the Arab-Israeli vote

Cairo-based organization warns Israel may be able to pass ‘racist laws against the Arabs’ with greater ease if there are too few Arab Knesset members

By Elhanan Miller

January 18, 2013
9:23 am

Asma Aghbaria-Zahalka, the head of the Daam party, poses for a photograph in Tel Aviv on Thursday. (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

Jewish-Arab party makes long-shot election bid

Daam party’s nonconformist platform calls for coexistence, ruffles feathers of established Arab lists

By Diaa Hadid

January 16, 2013
2:21 pm

Hanna Swaid, in foreground, of the Jewish-Arab socialist party Hadash (Courtesy of Hanna Swaid)

Coexistence, despite everything

In the jungle of the Knesset, Hanna Swaid is an endangered species. The final installment in a six-part series of profiles ahead of the elections

By Matti Friedman

January 14, 2013
7:13 pm

A true partnership, a true democracy

Efforts are underway by Arabs and Jews to reverse the trend of Arab voter apathy

By Nazier Magally

December 30, 2012
8:09 pm

Hanin Zoabi (photo credit: Flash90)

High Court was right to let controversial Arab MK run, legal experts say

Strict interpretation of the law would lead to numerous political bans, scholars say, and Israel is plenty strong enough to allow Hanin Zoabi’s radical parliamentary dissent

By Raphael Ahren

December 30, 2012
11:51 am

MK Michael Ben-Ari yells at MK Hanin Zoabi 'Go to Syria' as she leaves the hall at the Supreme Court on Thursday (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Right-wing politicians slam court for allowing controversial MK to run for Knesset

Verdict supports a terrorist, charge hawkish parliamentarians; Arab legislator calls decision ‘just’

By Aaron Kalman

December 30, 2012
10:59 am

Hanin Zoabi (center) and Jamal Zahalka (left) at the High Court of Justice on Thursday. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court overturns decision barring Arab MK Zoabi from running for Knesset

Balad legislator says decision to allow candidacy won’t erase bitter enmity between her and other lawmakers; Likud MK Akunis expresses chagrin over verdict

By Aaron Kalman

December 28, 2012
12:53 pm

Feeling good about the elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a drink with students in Beersheba (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Guess who’s coming to testify

Danny Ayalon didn’t make Yisrael Beytenu’s Knesset list, but he’s on another slate: the State’s witness list

By Yossi Nachemi

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