Akko: Arab woman running for local council

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Mon Sep-08-08 12:30 PM
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Akko: Arab woman running for local council

Ahead of the upcoming municipal elections, Israel's communist Hadash party voted in local faction primaries to elect the 25-year-old, secular, female Rim Hazan to the No. 2 spot in the party's Akko branch. The incumbent faction chairman, Ahmed Auda, was reelected to the party's No. 1 seat.

Hazan is a political science major at Haifa University and has been involved in politics from a young age. Her grandfather, Ramzi Houri, was one of the leaders of Rakah (the New Communist Party), the predecessor to Hadash. He served on the Akko city council for over three decades.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3593521,00.html

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