Former MK Heba Yazbak will be questioned on Monday in Lahav 433 on suspicion of incitement offenses. She will be questioned in the afternoon by the National Fraud Investigations Unit for several hours, including on suspicion of identifying with acts of terrorism on social media and the Facebook page she runs.
Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit has approved the investigation of the former MK from the Balad party. The investigation is being accompanied by the North District Attorney's Office.
Yazbak served as an MK for three Knessets, but did not enter the last Knesset after being placed in seventh place on the Joint List, while the party won only six seats.
In January 2020, Yazbak was disqualified from running in the 23rd Knesset by the Central Election Committee on the grounds of opposition to Israel's Jewish-democratic character and support for an armed struggle against the state. However, the High Court of Justice reversed the decision and ruled that she could run for Knesset.
The request for her disqualification at the time came in the wake of several pieces of evidence, chief among them two posts she published - one of them, from 2015, with a picture of the terrorist Samir Kuntar who murdered the Haran family; and another post, from 2013, with a picture of the terrorist Dalal Mughrabi who carried out the terrorist attack on the Coastal Highway.
The judges ruled in the same decision that due to the small amount of material evidence, the passage of time, the lack of substantiation regarding repeated acts and especially in light of Yazbak's clarifications and statements, backed by personal affidavits and expressions of remorse on her part - there was no "critical mass" of clear, unequivocal and convincing evidence collected that justified her disqualification.