Kan reported that MK Yousef Jabreen was missing from the Knesset swearing-in ceremony was because he "wasn’t eager to participate. I feel like a sort of foreigner to all the symbols [of state] there, I preferred to stay in the north and take part in the party for Hapoel Umm al-Fahm’s promotion to the Israeli Premier League."
Hapoel Umm Al-Fahm is his cities soccer team.