ABU QUEIDER, Israel — This was no ordinary Israeli politician’s campaign stop.

Some 40 Bedouin women sat on plastic chairs in an open-air living room, a muddy desert village of flimsy shacks, tin roofs, wandering chickens and pitted dirt roads providing the backdrop.

Before them, as modestly dressed as her audience, stood Iman Khatib Yasin, a social worker running for a seat in Israel’s Parliament on the predominantly Arab slate known as the Joint List.

Voter turnout among Arab women has always been poor, she reminded them, before describing how things could change if they made their voices heard — and if they helped her make history as Israel’s first hijab-wearing lawmaker.

“If we’re a big number,” she said, “we’re a strength that cannot be ignored.”

Israeli Jews generally seem dispirited about having to vote for a third straight time in a year, but for Arab voters and their candidates, Monday’s three-peat election is full of hope and promise. Buoyed by a strong showing in September, leaders of the combined slate of predominantly Arab parties known as the Joint List are hoping to improve on the 13 seats they won in the 120-seat Parliament, when they helped to nearly topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from power.