Arab Islamic movement not to take part in Knesset elections

The Islamic movement two wings, headed by Sheikhs Raed Salah and Kamal Khatib has announced they will not take part in any coalition list to launch the forthcoming Knesset elections in Israel.

Israeli Radio said that due to advancing the date of the elections, negotiations on reuniting had been suspended between the Islamic movement's two wings. As for contacts on the possibility of setting up a rallied joint Arab list, they will be limited in the meantime to the personal level between the representatives of political parties and movements in the Arab circles.