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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


An open letter to the Joint List

This is Israel, a country in the Middle East – the only country! – in which Arab women can live freely, can drive, can vote, and can pursue higher education.

Members of the Joint Arab List gesture during a news conference in Nazareth, January 23

Balad MKs to be questioned by police

Balad MK Haneen Zoabi at the Knesset.

MK Ghattas calls Peres ‘ruthless colonial settler, covered in blood’

Outrage across political spectrum over Joint List MK slamming former president while he’s in a coma.

MK Bassel Ghattas

Politicians call to oust Israeli-Arab MK from Knesset for pro-BDS talk

The lawmaker called Israel an oppressive, racist and apartheid state.

MK Bassel Ghattas

13 Jews and Arabs arrested as violence flares in Ashkelon over Palestinian hunger-striker

According to police, 10 Jews and 3 Arabs were arrested; among those were six juveniles and two adults who assaulted police officers.

13 Jews and Arabs arrested as violence flares in Ashkelon over Palestinian hunger-striker

Israeli-Arabs reject Netanyahu’s extended hand and apology as insincere

Netanyahu releases English and Hebrew YouTube videos with Arabic subtitles imploring Israeli-Arabs to take part in society "in droves."

PM Netanyahu: Dear Arab citizens of Israel--take part in our society in droves

Zoabi refuses Knesset bodyguards despite death threats

The Israeli Arab MK allegedly refused to give her schedule to Knesset Security Office Yosef Griff, preventing him from assigning bodyguards to protect her.

Haneen Zoabi speaks at Central Elections Committee hearing to ban her from running for Knesset

Labor MK Bar to Arab League ex-Sec-Gen: Help us negotiate with Palestinians

The MK argued that bilateral Israeli-Palestinian talks will not work on their own, and moderate Sunni states should be enlisted to support negotiations.

Hilik Bar

WATCH: Knesset brawl erupts after Arab Israeli MK calls IDF soldiers 'murderers'

MKs swarm Knesset podium yelling condemnations of Joint List lawmaker Haneen Zoabi and attempt to remove her from the stand.

Knesset brawl erupts after Arab Israeli MK calls IDF soldiers "murderers," June 29, 2016

Political future of MKs Zoabi, Ghattas in jeopardy

Balad central committee vote seen as a blow to controversial Joint List lawmakers

KNESSET MEMBER Haneen Zoabi speaking with the press last year. Her party colleague Basel Ghattas has decided to join the Gaza flotilla