Four Israeli women who have broken new political ground – They are an Ethiopian-born minister, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish lawmaker, a Druze lawmaker and the first Knesset member to wear a hijab | Washington Post

JERUSALEM — One was 3 years old when she trekked out of her remote African village with her parents, ultimately bound for Israel, and another had to break loose of the strictures of her insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish world. A third had to win over the spiritual leaders of her community, and the fourth has endured a stream of insults and other abuse as a conservative Muslim wearing a headscarf.