Joint List

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.

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

|ByDANA BEN-SHIMON
Joint List party chairman Ayman Odeh visits the home of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin, in the east Jerusalem Neighborhood of Beit Hanina, May 11, 2022

75% of Arab Israelis support Arab party joining government coalition post-war, survey reveals

The survey, conducted by Tel Aviv University, examined the attitudes of Israel’s Arab population following the conclusion of the war in Gaza.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
MK Aida Touma Sliman leads a conference on the recognition of the State of Palestine at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on June 4, 2024.

Joint List revival progressing with optimism, Hadash-Ta'al MK Touma-Sliman tells 'Post' - interview

During the meeting, the Hadash-Tal Party presented a “roadmap toward the Joint List” to the leaders of the Ra’am and Balad.

|ByKESHET NEEV

Joint List MK insults Likud MK, calls for civil disobedience

"This is the time for nonviolent civil disobedience against the government that is going to bury us under a murderous dictatorship."

JULY 21, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
OFER KASSIF: Hate and fear are the wind beneath the Right

Meretz, Joint List attempt to repeal Nation-State Law defeated

Blue and White pledged to amend the controversial 2018 law to include explicit guarantees of equality, but the party declined to repeal the law outright in Wednesday’s vote

JULY 15, 2020ByJEREMY SHARON
Israeli flag

Arab MK: LGBTQ rights are human rights, Arab community is evolving

"We know well what it means to fight for the most basic of rights."

JULY 11, 2020ByLEON SVERDLOV
The rainbow flag, commonly known as the gay pride flag or LGBT pride flag, is seen during the first Gay Pride parade in Skopje, North Macedonia June 29, 2019

Tibi demands police turn over al-Hallak footage: What are they afraid of?

Iyad al-Hallak, a young autistic man, was shot by Police in late May. The case is under investigation.

JUNE 13, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Iyad al-Hallak's grave, his death sparked mass protests over what some say is police brutality

Arab MKs blast Jewish terrorist attacker of Duma at sentencing hearing

'You burned a family... have you no shame?'

JUNE 9, 2020ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Joint List faction chairman Ahmad Tibi

Joint List MK tests positive for coronavirus, Knesset meetings canceled

On his Twitter page, Shehadeh asked anyone who has recently been in close proximity to him to immediately go into isolation.

JUNE 4, 2020ByGIL HOFFMAN, TAMAR URIEL-BEERI
Balad press conference, Septebmer 18, 2016

Joint List MK headed to quarantine after driver diagnosed with COVID-19

This news comes after an employee in the Prime Minister's Office tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday.

JUNE 2, 2020ByGIL HOFFMAN
An illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), depicts the 2019 Novel Coronavirus

Reports claim Yisrael Beytenu, Yamina join forces, Yamina denies

Yamina was quick to issue a response to the report, claiming that no alliance was made between their party and Yisrael Beytenu.

MAY 21, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Avigdor Liberman (L) Naftali Bennett (R)

Ceremony in Jerusalem commemorates communism amid anniversary of WWII end

The event was held according to Heath Ministry protocol, in contrast to previous years in which members of the Communist Party, the Joint List and numerous army veterans attended the event.

MAY 9, 2020ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI
AYMAN ODEH, leader of the Joint List – he holds a key to the castle, one that only Benny Gantz could use

Arab MK speaks at Knesset on Holocaust Remembrance Day for first time

'Holocaust denial is a remnant of Nazi ideology. It is a moral failure and its betrayal of the values of truth and justice is a transgression of a fundamental principle in Islam'

APRIL 21, 2020ByGIL HOFFMAN, TZVI JOFFRE
Joint List MK Mansour Abbas alongside Blue and White leader Benny Gantz on Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2020