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.

JANUARY 22, 2026|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.

DECEMBER 19, 2025|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.

DECEMBER 2, 2025|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.

AUGUST 31, 2025|ByKESHET NEEV

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