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

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.

‘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