Israel appoints a Christian Arab to supervise elections critical to the Jewish State.
By David Lazarus
For the first time in the country’s history, an Arab judge is chairing the Central Elections Committee presiding over today’s national elections.
Israeli Justice Salim Jubran – Source: Israel Today
Justice Salim Jubran (pictured) is a Christian Arab who grew up in the north of Israel. In 2004, he became the first Israeli Arab to be appointed a permanent seat on the Supreme Court.
Earlier this year, he was given the daunting task of overseeing all those hot-button, contentious and touchy election issues like who gets campaign funding, preventing voter fraud and determining what constitutes fair play in the rock’em sock’em world of Israel’s political propaganda wars.
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