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Haneen Zoabi

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “member of the knesset representing the balad party and a palestinian arab and an israeli citizen”. Today it says “palestinian-israeli politician”. 4 sections present on 6 October 2023 are absent today.
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Haneen Zoabi , also Hanin Zoubi ( , ; born 23 May 1969), is a Palestinian Arab , an Arab citizen of Israel , who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for the Joint List .1 Serving in the Knesset since 2009, Zoabi is the first Arab woman to be elected to Israel's parliament on an Arab party's list.2 Representing the Balad party, Zoabi was victorious in the 2009 and 2013 legislative elections . An interview with Haneen Zoubi, the only female Arab in the Knesset Alternatives International Journal.3

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Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “member of the knesset representing the balad party and a palestinian arab and an israeli citizen”. Today it says “palestinian-israeli politician”. 4 sections present on 6 October 2023 are absent today. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

member of the knesset representing the balad party and a palestinian arab and an israeli citizen

Now

palestinian-israeli politician

Sections that no longer exist

Present on October 6, 2023, absent today, with no near-matching heading in the current article and the article shorter overall, so this is not a renamed heading or a topic absorbed into a fuller treatment. 4 sections of 400 characters or more gone since October 6 2023, with the article 2,926 characters shorter.

  • Biography
  • Israeli foreign ministry tweets
  • 2014 kidnapping comments and Knesset suspension
  • Meeting with Palestinian attackers families
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