Keen for change, Israel’s Arab minority sees election as existential

MAJD AL-KRUM, Israel: After boycotting Israeli parliamentary elections his entire life, 55-year-old Said Kabat will head to the polls for the first time on October 27. For him, the vote is existential — if a right-wing government is returned to power, he fears for the future of Israel’s Arab minority, to which he belongs. The pharmacist from the Arab village of Majd Al-Krum in northern Israel told