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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.

 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

Dr. Yousef Jabareen

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

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


Israeli-Arab MK accuses Netanyahu of 'racism' during string of fires

Joint List leader calls on Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit to open an investigation into the PM on the matter.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Attenders and non-attenders at the Peres funeral

The Jerusalem Post

Zoabi: Arab teachers should be given day off for Yom Kippur

In 2008, an Arab driver was attacked after he drove through a Jewish area of Acre on Yom Kippur, triggering intercommunal violence.

MK Haneen Zoabi

Coalition to boycott Joint List after Peres funeral snub

Liberman says Arab MKs’ behavior crossed a redline; Odeh: Liberman’s initiatives to harm us only strengthen us.

Avigdor Liberman

An open letter to the Joint List

This is Israel, a country in the Middle East – the only country! – in which Arab women can live freely, can drive, can vote, and can pursue higher education.

Members of the Joint Arab List gesture during a news conference in Nazareth, January 23

Balad MKs to be questioned by police

Balad MK Haneen Zoabi at the Knesset.

MK Ghattas calls Peres ‘ruthless colonial settler, covered in blood’

Outrage across political spectrum over Joint List MK slamming former president while he’s in a coma.

MK Bassel Ghattas

Politicians call to oust Israeli-Arab MK from Knesset for pro-BDS talk

The lawmaker called Israel an oppressive, racist and apartheid state.

MK Bassel Ghattas

13 Jews and Arabs arrested as violence flares in Ashkelon over Palestinian hunger-striker

According to police, 10 Jews and 3 Arabs were arrested; among those were six juveniles and two adults who assaulted police officers.

13 Jews and Arabs arrested as violence flares in Ashkelon over Palestinian hunger-striker

Israeli-Arabs reject Netanyahu’s extended hand and apology as insincere

Netanyahu releases English and Hebrew YouTube videos with Arabic subtitles imploring Israeli-Arabs to take part in society "in droves."

PM Netanyahu: Dear Arab citizens of Israel--take part in our society in droves