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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.

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.
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

Benjamin Netanyahu, Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett.

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

 The Knesset building, home of Israel's legislature, in Jerusalem, on November 14, 2022 (Illustrative).

Hadash’s Jafar Farah withdraws Knesset bid amid sexual harassment allegations


Israel Election 2026: What do Yousef Jabareen’s Joint Arab List and Mansour Abbas’ Ra’am stand for?

If I put this ballot in the box, what government, policies, and political reality am I helping create?

Members of the Joint List arrive for a meeting with Israeli president Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on September 22, 2019.

Yashar takes lead over Likud as Arab parties projected to receive 10 seats - poll

The poll also scrutinized how voters would react to a scenario in which Hadash, Ta'al, and Balad united to run as a joint list, or if a so-called "third bloc" formed.

GADI EISENKOT, head of the Yashar party, speaks at the Muni Expo 2026 conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.

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

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.

Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas.

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. 

Dr. Yousef Jabareen

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.

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

Return of Arab Joint List takes seats from opposition while Likud strengthens - poll

The revived Joint List would win 13 seats, up from the 10 currently projected when the parties ran separately. The seats came at the expense of Yesh Atid, Naftali Bennett, and Gadi Eisenkot.

 MK Ahmad Tibi reacts during a plenum session in the Knesset on November 21, 2022

On a tightrope: Israel’s Arab citizens and the war with Hamas - opinion

 Israeli President Isaac Herzog is seen meeting with Arab women at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 25, 2023.

The Joint Arab List split up alters the political landscape - analysis

Balad, which was one of three parties in the Joint Arab List broke away from the other two, making it less likely that they will pass the electoral threshold.

 Joint List final list, without Balad, as the parties broke apart, September 16, 2022.

The changing status of Israel’s Arab population - opinion

This complicated reality is undoubtedly reflected in the new political constellation created by Israel’s 36th government, and the way the Jewish opposition speaks of and relates to the Arab MKs.

PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett and MK Mansour Abbas in the Knesset. This week, various members of the coalition – foremost Abbas’s Ra’am party – signaled that they may not vote for the budget if certain conditions were not met.