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Israeli-Arab Joint List candidate Aida Touma-Suliman is about to make history

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March 16, 2015

Aida Touma-Suliman, the 50-year-old Palestinian woman poised to win a seat in Israeli parliament tomorrow, is sick of talking.

The campaign trail is unfamiliar territory for Touma-Suliman, who's been running the Palestinian women's rights organization “>Al-Ittihad since 2011. For the past few weeks now, her sole job has been to convince Palestinian citizens of Israel, who have a historically low voter turnout rate, to show up to the ballot box on March 17. “>Hadash