Hadash

Arab parties move to reestablish Joint List without Ra’am after disagreements with Abbas

Polls have shown that if the Arab parties were to run together, they would receive more seats than they would obtain in a separate run.

 MK Ahmad Tibi reacts during a plenum session in the Knesset on November 21, 2022
Dr. Yousef Jabareen

Hadash elects former MK Yousef Jabareen as party chairman, ousting Ayman Odeh

 MK Ofer Cassif attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 21, 2026.

Jewish MK Ofer Cassif decries Operation Roaring Lion, warns of regional impact

Arab MK Ayman Odeh (at the plenum) and MK Ahmad Tibi (in the foreground) attend a Hadash-Ta'al faction meeting at the Knesset, February 2, 2026.

Supermajority of Israeli Arabs support re-establishing Joint List for Knesset elections, poll shows


‘Neither Israel nor Palestinians wardens of the US,’ Cassif says

Hadash MK Ofer Cassif fires off a letter to US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman after the latter voices the idea Israel has a “right” for some West Bank land.

OFER KASSIF: Hate and fear are the wind beneath the Right

Findings of ballot-stuffing in Arab towns sent to A-G for criminal probe

Any party can send observers to any polling place in the country. In this year’s election, Likud observers were caught with hidden cameras in several mostly Arab areas.

The slips used to vote in the 2019 elections, April 9th, 2019

Arab parties satisfied with exit polls

“I would like to thank our heroic people,” Odeh told supporters shortly after the exit polls were published.

ARABS HAVE full representation in the Knesset, with MKs such as Ayman Odeh (Joint List).

Ra’am-Balad and Hadash-Ta’al

According to recent surveys, Arab turnout is expected to decline to little over 50% on Tuesday, similar to the average turnout preceding the establishment of the Joint List.

Ahmad Tibi

One-On-One: The firebrand on the far Left

Ofer Kassif, the outspoken Jewish candidate on Hadash’s list for the Knesset, intends to challenge the dialogue in the country.

OFER KASSIF: Hate and fear are the wind beneath the Right

Study: Arab election turnout expected to slump to unprecedented low

“Among the younger Arab population, mostly first-time voters, 60% aren’t intending to vote. Among the older generations, over 35 years old, 60-65% said they would vote.”

An Israeli Arab stands behind a voting booth before casting her ballot at a polling station in the northern town of Umm el-Fahm March 17, 2015

‘Palestinians are killed en masse daily’ claims Hadash party candidate

High Court votes in favor of Kassif, who will run in the communist Hadash party's third, “Jewish” slot.

 Jewish Hadash party candidate Ofer Kassif

High Court disqualifies Ben-Ari; Rules Ben-Gvir, all Arab parties eligible

With its decision, the High Court essentially followed the recommendations of Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit, while overruling several decisions of the Central Elections Committee.

Dr. Michael Ben-Ari, Ph.D in archeology and Member of Knesset from 2009 - 2013 with the National Union party

Otzma on disqualification: Israel is not a democracy, it’s a judicial junta

Meretz boasts about getting Ben Ari out of the running.

An ad for the Otzma Yehudit party with Dr. Michael Ben-Ari, Baruch Marzel, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Bentzi Gopstein on a bus in Jerusalem, March, 2019

High Court hears petition to disqualify two Israeli-Arab parties

Kassif’s lawyer: Comments about attacks on IDF soldiers ‘philosophical,’ not supporting terror.

Ayman Odeh at a hearing for the disqualification of Hadash-Ta'al parties, March 13th, 2019