Ra'am

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.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett.
Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on June 29, 2026.

Otzma Yehudit issues request for Ra'am, Abbas to be barred from 2026 Knesset elections

United Arab List party Mansour Abbas and Yoav Segalovitz attend a discussion on the Electricity Law connecting to Arab and Bedouin towns, in during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament on December 06, 2021.

'I am going to an Arab party, they aren't coming to me': Segalovitz explains Ra'am move - interview

Head of Ra'am Mansour Abbas holds a joint press conference with new party member Yoav Segalovich in Nazareth.

Mansour Abbas bets on Yoav Segalovich to make Ra'am acceptable to Israel's center - analysis


Mansour Abbas: Ra’am not ruling out anyone in next coalition

The event was held at Ramat Hasharon's Yad Labanim Hall, which serves as a cultural center and includes a monument for IDF soldiers from the city who were killed in action.

 SITTING AS Knesset deputy speaker, MK Mansour Abbas presides over a debate in the plenum last week.

Israel Election: We must restore hope to Israel's Arab citizens - opinion

Low voter turnout, combined with declarations that the Arab public has no place among Israel’s decision-makers, is liable to create a fertile political climate for populist and racist legislation.

 JOINT LIST leader MK Ayman Odeh stands and shouts his objections during a debate in the Knesset, as Ra’am leader MK Mansour Abbas sits to the left.

Israelis show little voter fatigue despite frequent elections

Once again, the campaign will revolve around Benjamin Netanyahu’s ability to lead the country

Illustrative: A voting box in the an Israeli election in 2015.

Netanyahu 'trying to hurt me' after Ra'am gov't comment - Amsalem

Amsalem: After we have 61, Mansour Abbas can join • Netanyahu: Amsalem's opinion was his alone; Ra'am is 'antisemitic and anti-Zionist'

David Amsalem

Beware false election narratives from both the Left and the Right - opinion

Israel continues to be a free, enlightened, creative and exciting place. Do not let radical electioneering disfigure that noble reality.

 THE KNESSET votes in a preliminary reading on Wednesday to dissolve and hold a new election. It is ‘obscene and boorish’ to portray Israeli society as bisected by two warring narratives, says the writer.

Arab-Israelis feel let down by Knesset representation

With Ra’am losing ground, there must be some other party to pick up the pieces and enjoy the abundance of the now available votes.

Ra'am Party leader Mansour Abbas and party members at the party headquarters in Tamra, on election night, March 23, 2021.

Failed experiment isn't with Arabs, its PM without legitimacy - opinion

When the prime minister lacks legitimacy, the foundation upon which that government rests starts to fray.

 All alone and likely on his way out. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the Knesset this week.

Israel needs to stop relying on Ra’am - opinion

Relying on such people to govern is holding the whole country hostage. I say that enough is enough. The time has come for an Israeli leader to emerge who can bring people together without Ra'am.

 Mansour Abbas, head of the Ra'am party, leads a faction meeting in the Knesset on October 4, 2021

Has the experiment of an Arab party in the coalition failed? - analysis

The right-wing and religious parties seem to rejoice at their own conclusion that the “experiment” has “failed,” because they don't really want to see an Arab party, or Arab parties in the coalition.

 Ra'am head Mansour Abbas at the Knesset plenum, January 4, 2022

Government in peril as it mark its first anniversary

In an effort to keep his coalition together, Bennett met Sunday with wavering Yamina MK Nir Orbach

Ra'am Party leader Mansour Abbas and party members at the party headquarters in Tamra, on election night, March 23, 2021.