Report: Arab Knesset member to quit

Azmi Bishara, chairman of Israel’s Arab Balad Party, will resign in the coming days. The Jerusalem Post, citing a report Sunday in the Nazareth-based A-Sinara newspaper, said Bishara will resign over “very serious” allegations. However, a gag order prevented releasing further details.According to sources, Bishara left the country immediately following the allegations. Bishara, one of the more outspoken Arab Knesset members, is staying in a Jordan hotel and has been overseas for nearly a week and a half.Bishara, said the report, planned to announce his resignation in a televised Al Jazeera interview from Jordan in the coming days and would submit his letter of resignation to the Knesset via one of his colleagues after Passover.Bishara, along with four other Knesset members, was questioned in September 2006 for making visits to Syria and Lebanon. A 2001 law forbids political officials from traveling to enemy states.