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Iman Khatib-Yasin

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a Finance Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 17, 2026 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 17, 2026, 2:07 pm
Smotrich to Arab MKs: It’s not the government’s fault ‘you murder one another’
‘Educate your public to stop murdering,’ far-right minister says; opposition lawmakers accuse him of racism, rail at government for failing to curb violent crime
By Sam Sokol and Charlie Summers
Ra’am MK Iman Khatib-Yasin, in an interview with the Knesset Channel, November 5, 2023. (screenshot)
November 15, 2023, 2:29 pm
Knesset sanctions 2 Arab MKs for ‘denying’ Oct. 7 atrocities, alleging IDF war crimes
Lawmakers get temporary bans, pay withheld; Ra’am’s Khatib-Yassin has apologized after saying ‘they didn’t slaughter babies and they didn’t rape women’; no apology from Touma-Sliman
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Ra’am MK Iman Khatib-Yasin, in an interview with the Knesset Channel, November 5, 2023. (screenshot)
November 5, 2023, 6:33 pm
Ra’am party chief calls on MK to resign for claiming Hamas ‘didn’t slaughter babies’
MK Iman Khatib-Yasin says IDF footage did not show rape of women, but admits she did not view it; Mansour Abbas says there is ‘no place in party’ for minimizing Hamas atrocities
By Gianluca Pacchiani and ToI Staff
Ra'am leader MK Mansour Abbas leads a discussion and a vote on a bill to dissolve the Knesset, June 29, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 6, 2022, 10:07 pm
Mansour Abbas holds onto Ra’am’s top spot in primary, fills out slate with loyalists
MK Walid Taha, Knesset faction director Waleed Alhawashla and MK Iman Khatib-Yasin clinch spots 2-4; remainder of roster to be determined at a later date
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Then-MK Iman Khatib-Yasin speaks during a plenary session at the Knesset, on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)
August 25, 2021, 10:00 am
Ra’am’s late al-Harumi set to be replaced by former MK Iman Khatib-Yasin
Khatib-Yasin was Israel’s first hijab-wearing lawmaker following the March 2020 election, but failed to enter the Knesset in the latest round earlier this year
By ToI Staff
Israel's new government led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, in the Knesset, June 13, 2021. (Noam Moscowitz /Knesset)
June 20, 2021, 12:22 pm
Coalition scrambles for way to extend ban on Palestinian family reunification
Amid crisis, deal with Ra’am said to be proposed on law that bars West Bankers with Israeli spouse from obtaining citizenship; Likud set to oppose move, hoping to split coalition
By ToI Staff
Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej arrives at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, June 14, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 19, 2021, 5:14 pm
Meretz’s Frej won’t back extending ban on Palestinian family reunification
Position of Arab minister and MK may further complicate matters for coalition; Ra’am deputy chair says party looking at making adjustments to law
By ToI Staff
Top row (L-R) Osnat Mark, Ayoub Kara, Gabi Ashkenazi, Avi Nissenkorn; 2nd row (L-R) Miki Haimovich, Assaf Zamir, Omer Yankelevich, Tehila Friedman; 3rd row (L-R) Moshe Ya'alon, Ofer Shelah, Gadeer Mreeh, Tzvi Hauser; Bottom row (L-R) Amir Peretz, Itzhik Shmuli, Yitzhak Cohen, Iman Khatib-Yasin
March 30, 2021, 12:43 pm
Renegades, rabble-rousers, TV anchors, army chiefs: The MKs who won’t be back
Dozens depart in latest election’s political culling — from longest-serving lawmaker to some of the briefest, as well as 3 women of 3 faiths who each made history in their own way
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, November 19, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 10, 2020, 1:31 am
Accusations fly as MKs debate plan to combat violence in Arab Israeli towns
Knesset discussion erupts into uproar over acting police commissioner’s remark that ‘culture’ is responsible for some of the violence
By Aaron Boxerman
Newly-elected Ra'am MK, Iman Khatib-Yasin. (Gili Yaari/ Flash90/ via Zman)
April 4, 2020, 7:58 am
How Israel’s first hijab-wearing MK plans to fight for Arab women
Newly elected to the Joint List, self-described feminist Iman Khatib-Yasin has widespread support from both sexes as she accuses the Jewish state of the ultimate sexist suppression
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
Iman Khatib-Yassin (center), an Arab Israeli newly elected to the Knesset, speaks to supporters in the northern town of Kafr Kanna on March 4, 2020 (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
March 13, 2020, 10:43 am
Newly strengthened in Knesset, Arab women seek to expand their voice
Latest election doubled female lawmakers in Joint List; now they speak of plans to work for all of society, with one hijab wearing MK saying: ‘Do not make the veil a barrier’
By AFP and ToI Staff
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