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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.

JANUARY 30, 2026|ByMOSHE COHEN

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

NOVEMBER 13, 2023|ByARIK RUDNITZKY

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

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.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022|ByHERB KEINON

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

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.

OCTOBER 31, 2021|BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF

Zandberg defends Meretz boycott of embassy opening

Meretz chairwoman Tamar Zandberg said she’d like to see Jerusalem divided into an Israeli capital and a Palestinian one, each with its own embassy.

MAY 14, 2018ByLAHAV HARKOV

MK Ayman Odeh: 'The prime minister should apologize' for soccer comment

After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Arab-Israelis for jeering during a moment of silence to honor victims during a soccer match, Arab MKs call foul.

MAY 7, 2018ByHAGAY HACOHEN

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a conference in Tel Aviv on February 14

Senior Minister tells Arab List Leader: Don’t talk to me, Assad supporter

“I am with Syria against the American attack,” Hadash leader Ayman Odeh wrote on his Facebook.

APRIL 15, 2018ByLAHAV HARKOV

People protest the recent air strikes in Syria in front of the defunct US consulate in Haifa

Zoabi calls for ‘mass struggle’ against Israel after Tamimi verdict

“Ahed Tamimi is not just one, she is a whole generation... We are not waiting for the criminal [Israel] to understand,” Zoabi said.

MARCH 22, 2018ByLAHAV HARKOV

MK Haneen Zoabi at the High Court of Justice

Joint List leader: Apartheid exists in Israel’s infrastructure and law

Ayman Odeh leader visits South Africa in an effort to seek out support for the Palestinians.

MARCH 8, 2018ByILANIT CHERNICK

JOINT LIST CHAIRMAN Ayman Odeh is seen after he was injured last year during a clash with police in Umm al-Hiran, an unrecognized Beduin village in the Negev.

MK Peri quits over allegations of wrongdoing as Shin Bet chief

Joint List MK also resigns as part of rotation agreement.

FEBRUARY 7, 2018ByLAHAV HARKOV

MK Peri submits his letter of resignation on February 7, 2018.

Police recommend indicting three Balad MKs in party corruption probe

The three MKs are suspected of fraud, money laundering, bribery and several other offenses.

JANUARY 23, 2018ByUDI SHAHAM

VP Pence, Israel's friend in need

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog was the only Israeli speaker – among Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein – to talk about the importance of engagement with the Palestinians.

JANUARY 22, 2018ByDAVID BRINN