Education
Born in Yarka, Abu Ma'aruf studied medicine in the Soviet Union after receiving a scholarship from the Israeli Communist Party, and gained Russian citizenship.
Born in Yarka, Abu Ma'aruf studied medicine in the Soviet Union after receiving a scholarship from the Israeli Communist Party, and gained Russian citizenship.
He specialised in urology and family medicine, and currently works at Carmel Medical Centre. He has also been written for the Communist Party's Arab language newspaper Al-Ittihad. After he was elected, he was required to give up his Russian citizenship.
A member of Hadash, prior to the 2015 elections he was placed thirteenth on the Joint List list, an alliance of Hadash, Balad, the Islamic Movement, the United Arab List and Ta'al.