Iman Khatib-Yassin

Iman Khatib-Yassin was born in 1964 in Arraba

Khatib-Yassin was born in Arraba on 23 October 1964. She lives in Yafa an-Naseriyye in the Lower Galilee and has 4 children.

She earned a bachelor's degree in social work at the University of Haifa and a master's degree in women and gender studies at Tel Aviv University. She also graduated from the Mandel College for Leadership.

She worked in prisoner rehabilitation and founded a center for girls in distress in Nazareth. She founded and ran the community center in Yafa an-Naseriyye for 14 years and later also ran the one in Zemer.

A member of the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement, she entered the Knesset in 2020 on the Joint List. She ran with Ra'am in 2021, entered the Knesset in August 2021 after the death of Said al-Harumi, and was reelected in 2022.

On 5 November 2023 she said the attackers of 7 October had not killed babies or raped women, at least not in the footage shown. She apologized the same day, and the Knesset Ethics Committee suspended her for a month.