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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.

|ByKESHET NEEV
MK Ahmad Tibi reacts during a plenum session in the Knesset on November 21, 2022
Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas.

Netanyahu’s coalition moves to ban Ra'am from future elections over terror links - report

The initiative stems from a legal battle to designate the Southern Faction of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Ra’am’s parent movement, as a terrorist organization.

|ByASHER SMITH
Dr. Yousef Jabareen

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

"We will do everything to prevent the Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, and Smotrich government from continuing for another term," he said in a statement published by Hadash. 

|ByYOAV ETIEL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening of the government meeting on January 4, 2026.

New right-wing parties keep failing to unseat Likud - opinion

Many have tried unsuccessfully to challenge Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud from the Right, but a more realistic goal would be to take votes away from Naftali Bennett.

|ByORI WERTMAN

Justice or caution? The pros and cons of Knesset members on the Temple Mount

Freedom of religion is perhaps the most compelling individual rights-based argument for allowing MKs back on the Mount. Then, there's security.

AUGUST 24, 2017ByLAHAV HARKOV
Yehuda Glick outside Temple Mount.

Joint List MK resigns as part of rotation agreement

Former Balad MK Bassel Ghattas’ resignation as part of a plea deal complicated the rotation agreement.

AUGUST 9, 2017ByLAHAV HARKOV
President Reuven Rivlin meets with a delegation from the Joint (Arab) List at his residence March 22

Bennett to Arab MKs: Pick a side, good or evil

Bennett accused them of spreading an “antisemitic blood libel against Israel.”

JULY 26, 2017ByLAHAV HARKOV
Naftali Bennett

Arab-Israeli lawmaker warns of third intifada after Friday attack

Ayman Odeh leaders criticize closure of Aksa Mosque after two policemen are shot dead.

JULY 16, 2017ByLAHAV HARKOV, BEN LYNFIELD
HADASH MK Ayman Odeh, leader of the Joint Arab List, speaks at the Knesset in this file photo.

PA'S Abbas, Arab MKs welcome Gabbay's Labor leadership win

Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay stressed both security and readiness to negotiate with the Palestinians in his leadership election campaign.

JULY 13, 2017ByBEN LYNFIELD
Avi Gabbay, the new leader of Israel's centre-left Labor party, delivers his victory speech after winning the Labor party primary runoff, at an event in Tel Aviv

Ghattas accuses Joint List head Odeh of being a Zionist 'agent'

Ex-MK Basel Ghattas tears into Joint List chairman Ayman Odeh just before entering prison for smuggling.

JULY 4, 2017ByBEN LYNFIELD
MK Basel Ghattas

Arab leaders ask Rivlin for better crime-fighting

The meeting took place at the annual iftar dinner hosted by President Reuven Rivlin on Monday.

JUNE 13, 2017ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN addresses the Holocaust Remembrance Day opening ceremony at Yad Vashem on Sunday

Law, order and the conflict

Presently, Arab citizens are under the impression that homicide victims are not treated equally in the State of Israel. Jewish and Arab blood must be valued identically.

JUNE 6, 2017ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Cars set on fire in a riot in Kafr Kasim.

1 killed, police cars set on fire in riots in Arab-Israeli city

Clashes turned deadly in Kafr Kasim after a citizen resisted arrest.

JUNE 6, 2017ByALON HACHMON, YASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA, JPOST.COM STAFF
Cars set on fire in a riot in Kafr Kasim.

Joint List MK Zoabi praises Swiss war crimes probe of Livni

Livni decided not to participate at an event in Brussels in January after authorities there said she could be detained.

JUNE 2, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN
MK Haneen Zoabi at the High Court of Justice