Aida Touma-Suleiman

[1] Touma-Suleiman founded the Arab feminist group Women Against Violence in 1992, and has been its CEO since its foundation.

[8] She is only the fourth Arab Israeli woman to become a member of the Knesset, following Hussniya Jabara (Meretz), Hanin Zoabi (Joint List), and Nadia Hilou (Labor).

[2] In June 2015, she was elected to head the Knesset's Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality.

Although there reportedly exist safe houses for women and girls at risk, the Israel police and other authorities have not always utilized such shelters.

[9] In an interview with an American Jewish student newspaper in 2016, Suleiman explained that she condemned Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations that support terrorist organizations such as ISIS.

[11] In November 2023 she was suspended from the Knesset for two months after accusing the Israel Defense Forces of war crimes.

"[13] In July 2020 Touma-Suleiman expressed support for the LGBT community in response to a boycott of Al-Arz, an Arab Israeli company very popular for the tahini it produces, by social conservatives after Al-Arz's CEO, Julia Zaher donated to The Aguda – Israel's LGBT Task Force to establish a crisis hotline for Arabic-speaking LGBTQ Israelis.