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Border Police remove pro-Palestinian graffiti as Arab parties demand action on crime, governance

Border Police painted over nationalist graffiti in western Galilee villages, highlighting debates over governance as Arab parties seek political influence following the election.

Border Police officers paint over nationalist and pro-Palestinian graffiti on a wall in a western Galilee village, November 2026.
Attorney-General Gali Baharav Miara attends a House committee meeting at the Knesset on June 9, 2026.

A-G denies Zini's request to interrogate Arab party senior lawmakers, says evidence needed

Arab Israelis and Israeli left-wing activist students take part in a rally marking the Nakba anniversary at Tel Aviv University, May 13, 2026.

What I learned speaking to Arabs voting in Israel's election - reporter's notebook

Prime Minister and Likud party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu at the Likud party’s election headquarters in Jerusalem, October 28, 2026

Israel election results signal political deadlock, raising three possible post-election scenarios


Survey finds that as many as 74% of Arab Israelis could vote in September

Polls shows one-third of Arab citizens of Israel are still undecided about heading to the ballot box, but they could be persuaded.

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

AG: Joint List can run, Bayit Yehudi combines allowed

Mandelblit rejects attemps to disqualify Arab, far-right Jewish candidates and parties.

Avichai Mandelblit

Arab MK Ahmed Tibi’s Ta’al party is gaining strength

Yisrael Beytenu intends to appeal to the Central Elections Committee on Sunday against positive coverage the Joint List is receiving from PA media outlets aimed at Israeli Arab voters.

MK Ahmed Tibi (UAL - Ta'al) in the Knesset.

Poll: Almost half of Israeli-Arab voters dissatisfied with Joint List

The poll, carried out over the last three days, further revealed that 52% of respondents believe the Joint List does not represent them.

An Israeli Arab stands behind a voting booth before casting her ballot at a polling station in the northern town of Umm el-Fahm March 17, 2015. Millions of Israelis turned out to vote on Tuesday in a tightly-fought election, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing an uphill battle to defeat a

Poll finds waning support for the Joint List

Some 46% are displeased with the party and the rest don't know.

MK Haneen Zoabi [L] speaks at a news conference announcing the Joint List political slate of all the Arab parties with Ahmed Tibi [R], in Nazareth in 2015

Knesset approves breakup of Joint Arab List

MK Ahmad Tibi announced that he would leave the Joint List ahead of the April 9 election and that his party will run independently.

Israeli Arab lawmakers from the Joint Arab List (from L to R) Osama Saadi, Ahmed Tibi, Ayman Odeh, Masud Ganaim and Haneen Zoabi stand in front of the Dome of the Rock during a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City July 28, 2015.

Haneen Zoabi: I will not be running in the coming elections

Zoabi has long been one of the Knesset’s most controversial members, since first being elected to the legislature in 2009.

MK Haneen Zoabi

It's the personality, stupid: Parties to focus on big names, not ideology

Unsurprisingly in an era of personality politics, political platforms and ideology are not the major problem for any of the parties.

Bennett and Netanyahu shake hands in Knesset

Joint List leader: I hope Liberman will exit the Knesset entirely

Joint List leader Ayman Odeh joked he is considering asking Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein to always sit next to Liberman, as that would ensure Liberman leaving the building.

Ayman Odeh, head of the Joint Arab List

Joint List MKs meet with Arab League to fight Nation-State Law

“In the past, Israel has presented itself as a democratic country. But Netanyahu with this apartheid law has made Israel into a racist state."

Joint List MKs Ayman Odeh, Jamal Zahalka and Haneen Zoabi at the Tel Aviv University Nakba Day protest