Joint List

Likud says it will request to ban Arab parties from running in elections

The Likud stated that it would file the requests for the parties' disqualifications, and that "there is no place in the Knesset for those who harm IDF soldiers."

|ByKESHET NEEV
Mansour Abbas is the head of Ra’am, one of four Arab parties vying for a place in the Knesset.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett.

Israeli polls split on 2026 Knesset election possibilities, as Yashar, Likud vie for primacy - poll

The bloc averages also show no clear outcome: Netanyahu’s bloc, including Winter, stands at 53.6 seats, compared with 53.4 for the Zionist opposition bloc.

|ByMAARIV
Members of the Joint List arrive for a meeting with Israeli president Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on September 22, 2019.

Israel Election 2026: What do Yousef Jabareen’s Joint Arab List and Mansour Abbas’ Ra’am stand for?

If I put this ballot in the box, what government, policies, and political reality am I helping create?

|BySHIR PERETS
MK Yuli Edelstein speaks during a conference at the Reichman University in Herzliya, on January 13, 2026.

Gilad Erdan confirms talks with Benny Gantz on possible election alliance

Gantz also criticized calls to form another narrow coalition without the traditional right, arguing that both a narrow “change” government and a fully right-wing government had failed.

|ByYEHUDA SHLEZINGER, 103FM

Israel Elections: Low turnout ‘disastrous’ for Arab parties

By 2:00 p.m., only 13% of eligible voters in the Arab sector had cast their ballots

MARCH 23, 2021ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
Joint List Party leader Ayman Odeh casts his ballot at a voting station in Hafia, during the Knesset Elections, on March 23, 2021.

Election survey: 87% of Israeli Arabs support entering or supporting gov't

Whether enough Jewish parties would be willing to sit with Arabic parties in order to form a government however, remains a different question altogether.

MARCH 14, 2021ByIDAN ZONSHINE
An Israeli Arab casts her ballot at a polling station inside a church in the northern town of Reineh, March 17, 2015.

Umm el-Fahm freezes policing activities after violent weekend

Umm al-Fahm Mayor Dr. Samir Mahamid, who was injured during Friday's protest, has claimed that the police statement was "misleading at best."

FEBRUARY 28, 2021ByIDAN ZONSHINE, TOBIAS SIEGAL
Israeli policemen detain a protester during clashes in the Israeli-Arab town of Umm el-Fahm

Israel Elections: Netanyahu needs Yamina, Gantz falls below threshold

Yamina, with 12 seats, would be the eventual kingmaker. The party has not yet committed to sitting under a Netanyahu-led government again.

FEBRUARY 22, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Gideon Sa'ar, Naftali Bennett, or Benjamin Netanyahu: Who is Israel's next prime minister?

Grapevine February 7, 2021: Once there were Anglos in the Knesset

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

FEBRUARY 6, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
MACCABI HNAMTE (72) and his wife, Sarah (70), were among the Bnei Menashe couples who remarried recently at Shavei Israel’s immigrant absorption center in Nordia.

Israel Elections: Joint Arab List breaks up, leaving Mansour Abbas out

Ra'am decided to leave the Joint List last week after the other parties refused two ultimatums to vote together against LGBTQ issues, and to allow Abbas greater freedom to vote with the Right.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021ByIDAN ZONSHINE
Members of the Joint List hold hands to celebrate the signing of their joint run, Feb. 4, 2021.

Grindr users surprised to find profile of anti-LGBTQ+ MK Mansour Abbas

The profile was likely created in response to the MK's negative views towards homosexuality, w after Abbas dismantled the Joint List earlier this week due to disagreements about LGBTQ+ rights.

JANUARY 30, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

As Election Day approaches, Arab society is more fractured than ever

ARAB AFFAIRS: Within Arab politics, there is also dissension and fracture.

JANUARY 29, 2021ByUDI SHAHAM
POLICE SCUFFLE with Arab-Israelis in Nazareth during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the city earlier this month.

Israel Elections: Joint List on verge of breaking up

Odeh's party: No Likud branch will be allowed inside the Joint List

JANUARY 25, 2021ByGIL HOFFMAN
MK MANSOUR ABBAS (middle front) and members of the Arab Joint List vote in December to dissolve the Knesset.

Israel Elections: Poll finds Yair Lapid, Gideon Sa'ar tied for second

Coalition can be formed without Likud, haredim and Arabs.

JANUARY 22, 2021ByGIL HOFFMAN
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein seen during the vaccination of the two million recipients, in Ramla, January 14, 2021.