TIMES OF ISRAEL
by Renee Ghert-Zand
January 11, 2015

Muslim-Arab Israeli candidate whose 3 children have served in IDF doesn’t care what you call her, so long as it’s not ‘Palestinian’….This past summer, during Operation Protective Edge, Anett Haskia came to the Israeli public’s attention when, as the mother of a soldier on active duty, she spoke out in support of the IDF’s fight against Hamas in Gaza. She wasn’t the only mother to turn up at rallies for the troops, but she was most likely the only Arab Israeli one to do so. Now, she’s running to be a Knesset member with Naftali Bennett’s right-wing Zionist Jewish Home party — not the usual place for a person of her background. But then again, she is not typical at all. READ MORE