MK Mansour Abbas, head of the Ra am party, April 19, 2021.
The Knesset Plenum Monday evening approved by a vote of 57 to 1, with 15 abstentions, the Arrangements Committee’s decision to form a Special Committee on Arab Society Affairs, chaired by MK Mansour Abbas (Ra’am).
Addressing the formation of the special committee, MK Esawi Frej (Meretz) said, âI can’t believe what I’m hearing. I am a citizen of the State of Israel, and the Arrangements Committee decided that it wants me to be a subject, not a citizen⦠Imagine that in the United States a committee on the affairs of the Jews would be established. This is a dark day for Arab society, because some of my colleagues, Arab members of Knesset, had a hand in this.”
MK Ruth Wasserman Lande, Israel’s Force for Economic Equality Felice Friedson 02/04/2021
Ruth Wasserman Lande was born in Israel and raised in Cape Town, South Africa. She joined Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, on Jan. 8, 2021, and was forced out four days later when a government minister from her Blue and White party resigned and returned to the Knesset under the Norwegian law. Three weeks later she returned to Knesset when a party lawmaker left to join another party.
She currently serves as a member of eight Knesset committees: House; Finance; Economic Affairs; Constitution, Law and Justice; State Control; Labor, Welfare and Health; the Special Committee on the Novel Coronavirus and for Examining the State’s Preparations for Epidemics and Earthquakes; and the Special Committee on Eradicating Crime in Arab Society. In addition, she is an alternate member of the prestigious Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.