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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.

|ByORI WERTMAN
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening of the government meeting on January 4, 2026.
MK Ahmad Tibi reacts during a plenum session in the Knesset on November 21, 2022

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.

|ByMOSHE COHEN
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

|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.

|ByHERB KEINON

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