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Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Sunday, April 19, 2015
Arab MKs to meet with Arab League, Abbas says
Arab-Israeli lawmakers will meet in two Arab capitals with the Arab League, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says.
Abbas makes the statement on Saturday in Ramallah during his second meeting in less than a month with Ayman Odeh, the head of Israel’s Joint (Arab) List political coalition.
The lawmakers will go to Cairo and Doha, Qatar, the PA leader says, but did not say when the visits would be arranged.
Joint (Arab) List leader Ayman Odeh (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Also present at the meeting is the head of the southern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Abdullah Nimer Darwish.
—JTA
