Joint List

IDI expert weighs if joint lists pose threat to Netanyahu ahead of Israel's elections - interview

Opposition parties remaining separate may actually offer strategic advantages for campaigning against Netanyahu, Rahat explained.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ministers and MK's attend a Special Session in his Honor of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 26, 2026.
A photo posted by Likud social media team depicting former prime minister Naftali Bennett alongside Arab MKs, January 26, 2026.

Bennett files police complaint against Likud over forged photo with Arab party heads

A petition will also be filed to Israel's Central Elections Committee over the forged picture, Bennett's party said.

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An Israeli Arab casts her ballot at a polling station inside a church in the northern town of Reineh, March 17, 2015.

Arab parties sign commitment to re-establish joint list ahead of Israel's elections

The bloc, once made up of the four Arab parties, began to break apart ahead of the 2021 elections after Ra’am left the alliance.

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RA’AM PARTY HEAD MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in November. Abbas’s political opponents have accused him in recent days of foiling efforts to form a joint list ahead of the elections, claiming that he doesn’t want to close the door to a future coalition.

Arab Israelis push to revive Joint List as divisions threaten their political voice

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: “There is anger in the Arab street because the Arab politicians haven’t managed to work together," political analyst Mohammed Darawshe tells the Post.

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‘PA, not Arab MKs, responsible for establishing Palestinian state’

Most Arab Israelis would like to see their representatives in the Knesset focus less on the Palestinian issue and more on problems facing the Arab sector.

JANUARY 17, 2021ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
JOINT LIST MKs (from left) Mtanes Shehadeh, Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi, and former MK Abd al-Hakeem Hajj Yahya meet at the Knesset, September 17, 2020

Israel Elections: The Arab vote's short-term, long-term significance

Israeli Arabs have been shut out of key political positions of influence not only because of a discriminatory policy, but also because of their own political choices.

JANUARY 14, 2021ByJPOST EDITORIAL
An Israeli-Arab father casts a ballot together with his children, as Israelis vote in a parliamentary election, at a polling station in Umm al-Fahm, Israel April 9, 2019

Disgruntled Arab candidates search for new ‘political homes’

At this stage, it’s not clear whether the four parties comprising the Joint List – Hadash, United Arab List, Ta’al and Balad – would again run together in the next election.

JANUARY 14, 2021ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
MK MANSOUR ABBAS (middle front) and members of the Arab Joint List vote in December to dissolve the Knesset.

Joint List MK kicked out of c'tee after harsh comments towards UAE guests

"There is one party in our parliament that voted against the Abraham Accords. They refuse to acknowledge that it is a new Middle East."

DECEMBER 22, 2020ByTZVI JOFFRE
Emirati guests at a meeting of the Knesset Special Committee for the Israeli Citizens' Fund

Joint List MK Abbas would sit in Netanyahu-led gov't, feels used by Left

"I am not ruling it out depending on the circumstances and conditions," Abbas said about joining a Netanyahu-led government.

DECEMBER 19, 2020ByEVE YOUNG, SARI MAKOVER-BALIKOV/MAARIV
Joint List MK Mansour Abbas alongside Blue and White leader Benny Gantz on Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2020

Knesset dispersal bill advances with March 16 election date

Blue and White aims to pass the bill into law next week.

DECEMBER 9, 2020ByGIL HOFFMAN
ALTERNATE PRIME MINISTER Benny Gantz keeps his distance from his nemesis, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during Wednesday’s Knesset debate on ending the government’s tenure and calling a fourth general election in the space of a year and a half.

Joint List changes signal chance for unity in Israeli politics - opinion

The Arab Israeli electorate and the new generation are changing. The political campaign game should change with it.

DECEMBER 7, 2020ByEMILY SCHRADER
JOINT LIST members gather at party headquarters in Shfaram during the Knesset elections in March.

Poll finds Israelis worried about Biden taking over from Trump

Survey finds Netanyahu’s approach to Abbas is appreciated.

DECEMBER 7, 2020ByGIL HOFFMAN
US President Joe Biden gestures after disembarking from a plane upon landing at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, Israel March 8, 2016

Joint List infighting threatens its future

Due in part to infighting in the Joint List, polls broadcast on Tuesday night predicted that it would fall from its current 15 seats to 11 or 12 in the next election.

NOVEMBER 26, 2020ByGIL HOFFMAN
JOINT LIST MKs (from left) Mtanes Shehadeh, Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi, and former MK Abd al-Hakeem Hajj Yahya meet at the Knesset, September 17, 2020

Meet Mansour Abbas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's unlikely ally

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: The head of the United Arab List aims to change Israeli politics forever

NOVEMBER 19, 2020ByGIL HOFFMAN
DEPUTY KNESSET SPEAKER Mansour Abbas: I accept the democratic choices of Jewish-Israeli society, just like I ask Jewish-Israeli society to accept the choices of Arab-Israeli society.