Fugitive Bishara honored at Arab conference

Ex-Knesset member suspected of aiding Hizbullah chosen to chair Arab National Conference
Roee Nahmias

Bishara honored: Former Arab-Israeli Knesset Member Azmi Bishara was unanimously elected Saturday as the chairman of the 19th round of the Arab National Conference, held in Yemen this year.

The annual conference, which got underway Saturday morning, brings together Arab nationalist parties. The meeting, titled "Arab Joint Work – Challenges and Horizons," will last four days and has drawn more than 300 politicians and intellectuals from a number of Arab countries.

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The conference was first held in Tunisia in 1990, and since then has been held in a different location every year. During the conference, participants work to improve cooperation and coordination between similar parties across the Arab world.

Bishara's wife questioned

Bishara left Israel more than a year ago, in the midst of an investigation against him, and has not returned since. The former Knesset Member and Chairman of the Balad Party is suspected of aiding the enemy during war, contacts with a foreign agent, handing over information to the agent, and violating terror-funding legislation.

According to suspicions, Bishara initiated contacts with a Hizbullah source during the Second Lebanon War and handed over information regarding strategic locations in Israel so that Hizbullah can target the sites. Bishara is believed to have received hundreds of thousands of shekels in exchange for the information.

Bishara's wife was held for questioning several days ago, when she arrived on Israel, on suspicion of contacts with a foreign agent.