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First Druze woman in Knesset to take break from politics
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleYesh Atid MK Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh, 36, announces she’s taking a break from political life and won’t run in the March elections.
Kamal-Mreeh, a former journalist, is the first Druze woman to serve in Israel’s parliament.
She entered the Knesset after the April 2019 elections.
“My decision was not easy and was made after much deliberation, but I am entirely at peace with it,” she says in a statement, calling her parliamentary career an “honor.”
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