He was elected to the Knesset on the party's list in 1951 elections, but on 20 February 1952 left the party and formed the Left Faction together with Rostam Bastuni and Moshe Sneh.
In 1963, his nephew, Hassan Boustouni, became the first Arab to play in the top tier of the Israeli Premier League when he debuted with Maccabi Haifa F.C..