More women and Arabs elected to Israel’s Knesset

May I throw some light on the Israeli general election, the results of which worried Dr Kevin McCarthy [Letters, 19 March]. 

The Israeli election results show that a record number of women, far more Arabs, and considerably fewer Orthodox lawmakers will serve in the next Knesset.

- Twenty-eight women will serve in the next Israeli Knesset, compared with 27 in the previous, which was also a record, at that time. The new, joint Arab ticket has two women on it, as does Meretz, the small, left-wing Zionist party, which made it into the Knesset by the skin of its teeth. In the new centre-right Kulanu party, 4 of the 10 representatives who will sit in the next Knesset are women.