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Israeli Arabs join forces in Knesset to change status quo
Israel has 1.7 million Arab citizens, some 20 percent of the country's population. Yet nearly half of the country's Arab population live in poverty. This spring, Arab Israeli lawmakers rallied under a unified political bloc for the first time, ushering a new generation of Arab Israeli lawmakers into parliament who intend to change the status quo.
