Joint arab list

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

Gal-On, Odeh, PA official support dividing Jerusalem

“There will be no peace without the division of Jerusalem," Meretz chairwoman Zehava Gal-On said.

MAY 24, 2017ByADAM RASGON
Zehava Gal-On, Ayman Odeh and Mahmud Habash

Knesset to hold discussion on Ghattas’s impeachment

The impeachment process began after Environmental Protection Minister Ze’ev Elkin gathered 71 lawmakers to support the move.

MARCH 13, 2017ByUDI SHAHAM
Balad MK Basel Ghattas

Ayelet Shaked: Arab MKs to blame for deaths

“Along with left-wing NGOs, Odeh’s incitement terrorism is leading to the never-ending unrest of the Negev Beduin residents,” she wrote on Facebook.

JANUARY 19, 2017ByUDI SHAHAM
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked

Arab-Israeli MK Ghattas suspended from Knesset

“The issue from the beginning is part of the political persecution in the framework of political oppression against the Arab citizens."

JANUARY 2, 2017ByLAHAV HARKOV
Balad MK Basel Ghattas

Analysis: Ghattas’s charges of ‘political persecution’ ring hollow among Arabs

‘It was a very dangerous and harmful mistake and you need to take responsibility.’

DECEMBER 22, 2016ByBEN LYNFIELD
Members of the Joint Arab List gesture during a news conference in Nazareth, January 23

MK Ghattas arrested hours after being stripped of immunity

Joint List MK was caught on camera giving documents and cell phones to terrorists in prison.

DECEMBER 22, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV, ELIYAHU KAMISHER
MK Basel Ghattas at Temple Mount

Arab MK Ghattas stripped of immunity in terrorist phone smuggling affair

Police found 12 cellphones and 16 SIM cards on two Palestinian security prisoners in the Ketziot Prison in the Negev after Ghattas had visited them.

DECEMBER 22, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV
MK Bassel Ghattas

Knesset to vote today on stripping MK Ghattas of immunity

House Committee approves unprecedented request from attorney-general ahead of an indictment

DECEMBER 21, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV
MK Bassel Ghattas

Arab-Israeli MK traveled to Jordan on Hamas TV’s dime

MK Hanin Zoabi's office was unavailable for comment on the matter.

DECEMBER 13, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV
Zoabi confronts police at Temple Mount

Joint List MK: Israel using Nazi-style methods to incite against Arabs over fires

More than a week after flames are doused, Jewish-Arab relations continue to smolder.

DECEMBER 6, 2016ByBEN LYNFIELD, ELIYAHU KAMISHER
A FIREFIGHTER WALKS inside a building destroyed by fire in Beit Meir, near Jerusalem, in November