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Tuesday, October 27, 1998 Published at 11:22 GMT
World: Middle East
Arab-Israeli elected deputy speaker
An Arab-Israeli MP has been elected deputy speaker for the first time in Israeli history.
He is Salah Salim, whose Communist Party, Hadash, has five deputies in the Knesset.
There are some one-million Arab-Israelis in Israel out of a population of six million.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
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