Haneen Zoabi
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| Date of birth | 23 May 1969 |
| Place of birth | Nazareth, Israel |
| Knessets | 18, 19, 20 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 2009–2015 | Balad |
| 2015– | Joint List |
Haneen Zoabi, also Hanin Zoubi (Arabic: حنين زعبي, Hebrew: חנין זועבי; born 23 May 1969), is an Israeli Arab politician, who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for the Joint List. 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. Representing the Balad party, Zoabi was elected in the 2009 and 2013 legislative elections.
Haneen Zoabi was born in Nazareth to a Muslim family. Zoabi studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Haifa, earning a Bachelor of Arts, and received a Master of Arts in communications from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was the first Arab citizen of Israel to graduate in media studies, and established the first media classes in Arab schools. She also worked as a mathematics teacher and worked as a school inspector for the Israeli Ministry of Education.
She is a relative of Seif el-Din el-Zoubi, a former mayor of Nazareth and member of the Knesset between 1949 and 1959, and again from 1965 until 1979, and Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi, a Deputy Health Minister and the first Arab member of an Israeli government.
Zoabi joined Balad in 2001. In 2003, she co-founded the NGO I'lam – Media Center for Arab Palestinians in Israel (pronounced e'e'lam). Zoabi was its general director until she resigned shortly before the 2009 election to focus on her political career.
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