Ahmad Tibi

Supermajority of Israeli Arabs support re-establishing Joint List for Knesset elections, poll shows

A new poll by ArPanel reveals strong backing among Israeli Arabs for a unified Joint List, with 82% in favor and a clear preference for new candidates in the upcoming Knesset election.

|ByJAMES GENN, MOSHE COHEN
Arab MK Ayman Odeh (at the plenum) and MK Ahmad Tibi (in the foreground) attend a Hadash-Ta'al faction meeting at the Knesset, February 2, 2026.
Police Spokesperson Aryeh Doron visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, during the first Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan, March 7, 2025.

Police spokesman barred from commissioner's office, excluded from meetings amid rift

Coalition sources told Walla the commissioner is “susceptible to pressure,” which is why he has not dismissed Doron.

|ByYEHUDA SHLEZINGER
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
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir argues with MK Ahmad Tibi during a Home committee meeting at the Knesset. October 15, 2024.

Israeli court hears petition to guarantee access to security prisoners by MKs

The petition could redefine the limits of parliamentary oversight in issues of security, detention, and ministerial discretion.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN

Should Ahmad Tibi be Israel’s coronavirus czar?

The battle over Uman is not about graves – it's about politics.

AUGUST 29, 2020ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
AHMAD TIBI: When he [Netanyahu] says ‘Ahmad Tibi,’ he means Ahmad the Arab.

Northern Israel placed in lockdown over 'severe outbreak' of coronavirus

The new coronavirus regulations announced by Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday were not imposed on Israel's Arab-majority cities.

APRIL 15, 2020ByLEON SVERDLOV
Police at a temporary "checkpoint" on road number 1 outside Jerusalem on April 8, 2020, to check if people are not disobeying the governments orders on a lockdown, in order to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.

Israel Katz: The Joint List is full of terrorists in suits

Ayman Odeh: The Likud Party are losers in ties

MARCH 8, 2020ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz

'Bibi has Tibi-phobia, and it's spreading like coronavirus'

Political Affairs: Joint List faction chairman Ahmad Tibi lays out demands to enable a Benny Gantz-led government: No Trump plan, no attacking in Gaza

FEBRUARY 28, 2020ByGIL HOFFMAN, UDI SHAHAM
AHMAD TIBI: When he [Netanyahu] says ‘Ahmad Tibi,’ he means Ahmad the Arab.

Joint List's Ahmad Tibi, 'No Gantz government if Gaza attacked'

“There will be no bulldozers on bodies, no air attacks on the Palestinians. Peace, not war. I have a limit of what I can swallow.”

FEBRUARY 27, 2020ByGIL HOFFMAN, UDI SHAHAM
Joint List faction chairman Ahmad Tibi

Ayelet Shaked: Kaminitz Law meant for Arabs

"When there is a law [for some] and another discriminatory law [for others] it is called apartheid," Ahmed Tibi responded.

DECEMBER 30, 2019ByLEON SVERDLOV
Ayelet Shaked, former justice minister, speaks at The Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference.

Grapevine: No stars and stripes for Adam

Believe it or not, there are non-resident American citizens who are prepared to renounce their citizenship.

DECEMBER 5, 2019ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Zahava Gal-On.

Ahmad Tibi attacked by right-wing activists: 'terrorist,' 'murderer'

The Arab MK responded to the incident by saying that if a government would form that the Joint List supported, "an Arab MK would be murdered."

NOVEMBER 30, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
AHMAD TIBI – since Israel’s very first election in 1949, Arabs have voted and served as members in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset

Ahmad Tibi files complaint for incitement against Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu’s recent statements attacking the Joint List are dangerous and could lead to the murder of one of the party’s leaders, Tibi told the 'Post' on Sunday.

NOVEMBER 18, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi (below) yells at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset on Wednesday

Tibi: Netanyahu inciting to kill us; Odeh asks Knesset for bodyguard

Tibi called upon President Reuven Rivlin and Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit to take a stance against incitement.

NOVEMBER 17, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN
MK Ahmad Tibi (Joint List) at the Knesset during a discussion on the Nation-State Law August 8, 2018.