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Elections Committee members for the 20th Knesset disqualified the candidacy of Knesset member Haneen Zoabi, who's ranked seventh on the joint Arab slate. Yariv Levin, the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman who was one of the petitioners against her candidacy, said during the deliberations that Zoabi’s activity is focused on supporting terrorism and repudiating Israel’s existence as a Jewish democratic state.
“Those seeking to disqualify me are the ones who should be standing before us and held accountable for what has been done to my people and to other peoples,” she replied to the allegations leveled against her.
