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

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

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

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

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.

The changing status of Israel’s Arab population - opinion


Rivlin calls for a new Israeli agenda

Rivlin said that when he presented his partnership vision of a shared national identity last year, it caused a lot of controversy, and he was even accused of being a post-Zionist.

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the 16th annual Herzliya Conference

Will Arab faction leader Ayman Odeh start receiving classified security briefings?

Likud MK: Odeh represents our enemies; Joint List chairman would be automatic opposition head if Zionist Union joins coalition, but he may have to fight to keep the position.

Joint List head Ayman Odeh shouts slogans near the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem

MKs beware: Calling each other 'terrorists' or 'Nazis' is now punishable

Though the Ethics Committee has a policy of not punishing lawmakers for speech, it decided to make an exception for personal accusations.

Ayman Odeh, head of the Joint Arab List

Netanyahu: Gulf States' decision to blacklist Hezbollah a sign of improving ties with Israel

PM pans Israeli Arab MKs' condemnation of Hezbollah terror listing.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Knesset factions condemn Gulf Arab states for blacklisting Hezbollah

Hadash and Balad slam the move to label Hezbollah a terrorist organization.

Lebanon's Hezbollah scouts carry their parties flag while marching at the funeral of three Hezbollah fighters who were killed in Syria

Netanyahu instructs A-G to look into Balad MKs’ meeting with terrorists’ families

Speaking to Mandelblit Saturday night, Netnayahu asked him to review legal steps that can be used in response to the lawmakers’ actions.

Lawmakers from the Joint Arab List stand in front of the Dome of the Rock during a visit to the compound in Jerusalem's Old City, July 28

'Netanyahu inciting against us,' Arab MKs say after visiting terrorists' kin

Earlier this week, the Balad MKs met with the families of 10 terrorists whose bodies have not been released by authorities.

Lawmakers from the Joint Arab List stand in front of the Dome of the Rock during a visit to the compound in Jerusalem's Old City, July 28