" In January 2021, in the buildup to the , the United Arab List split from the Joint List | Personal life [ ] Abbas is married with three children and lives in |
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Career [ ] Abbas is a qualified dentist |
He is currently the leader of the and represents the party in the.
5On 2 June 2021, after holding negotiations with Israeli opposition figures and , Abbas renewed his commitment to backing a non-Netanyahu government after signing a coalition agreement with Lapid | " Abbas joined the rest of the Joint List in voting against the |
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He attended the to study dentistry, where he was elected chair of the Arab Students Committee | He gave an interview with the right-wing pro-Netanyahu Channel 20 Network, where he advocated working with Zionist parties in order to secure the funds and reforms needed for the benefit of Arab Israeli society |
He described his vote as a protest against the lack of a peace treaty with the Palestinians, adding, "If there will be a real agreement with the Palestinians, there will be real agreements with 55 Muslim countries.
21Abbas stated: "As a religious Palestinian Muslim Arab, who was raised on the legacy of Sheikh Abdallah Nimr Darwish who founded the Islamic Movement, I have empathy for the pain and suffering over the years of Holocaust survivors and the families of the murdered | TOI staff 28 January 2021 |
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According to the by-laws of the party, limiting MKs to three terms, Abbas was ineligible to run again for office in the 2021 elections | But what truly matters is that we are Israelis, and our actions are not supposed to be influenced by whether there is peace with Bahrain |
Tov, Michael Hauser 2 June 2021.