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Supreme Court allows Ofer Cassif, Ra'am, Joint List to run in 26th Knesset election

The court overturned Central Elections Committee decisions disqualifying MK Ofer Cassif, Ra'am and the Joint List, while Sami Abu Shehadeh withdrew his candidacy during proceedings.

|ByYOAV ETIEL
Head of Ra'am Mansour Abbas holds a joint press conference with new party member Yoav Segalovich in Nazareth.
Head of the Balad party MK Sami Abu Shehadeh arrives to cast his vote a voting station, on November 1, 2022, for the Israeli general elections. November 1, 2022.

Election panel to weigh whether Balad leader Abu Shehadeh crossed legal line for Knesset run

Abu Shehadeh faces a disqualification hearing centered on an October 8, 2023, article and whether it meets the Supreme Court’s strict legal standard.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Mansour Abbas is the head of Ra’am, one of four Arab parties vying for a place in the Knesset.

Likud says it will request to ban Arab parties from running in elections

The Likud stated that it would file the requests for the parties' disqualifications, and that "there is no place in the Knesset for those who harm IDF soldiers."

|ByKESHET NEEV
Benjamin Netanyahu, Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett.

Israeli polls split on 2026 Knesset election possibilities, as Yashar, Likud vie for primacy - poll

The bloc averages also show no clear outcome: Netanyahu’s bloc, including Winter, stands at 53.6 seats, compared with 53.4 for the Zionist opposition bloc.

|ByMAARIV

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

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.

DECEMBER 5, 2016ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Benjamin Netanyahu

Attenders and non-attenders at the Peres funeral

OCTOBER 23, 2016ByNEVILLE TELLER
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.

OCTOBER 9, 2016ByBEN LYNFIELD
MK Haneen Zoabi