Arab parties

Mansour Abbas' Ra'am party to hold first ever primary election for Knesset candidates

According to the party's statement, the conference is part of the completion of its organizational preparations and fulfills its constitutional requirements.

Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas.
OPPOSITION LEADER Yair Lapid and former prime minister Naftali Bennett attend an election event for the joint list Together, earlier this year.

My Word: Political name of the game - opinion

AN ARAB ISRAELI citizen casts his vote at a polling station in Mughar in the 2022 election.

Israel’s Arab vote potential: Politicians ignore potential election-winning demographic - opinion

Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas.

Can Israel remain Jewish and democratic without Arab parties in government? - opinion


Greenblatt meets Saudi, UAE ministers amid talk of Mideast summit

Senior Israeli officials who spoke with the Post said any summit would require an informal settlement freeze outside of established blocs.

Jason Greenblatt

Two dead and multiple injured, including children in shootings in Israeli-Arab towns

Northern District Police have yet to make any arrests in the shootings and a gag order was imposed on details of the investigation.

Picture of the crime scene in Nazareth, Saturday night.

Ghattas convicted of smuggling phones to security prisoners

The court's decision on sentencing was set for April 9.

MK Basel Ghattas

MK Odeh: 'Peace is impossible without Israeli-Arab input'

Speaking to members of the Foreign Press Association on Monday, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash) heeded that peace will not be achieved if Israel's Arab sector will not be fully included in the process.

HADASH MK Ayman Odeh, leader of the Joint Arab List, speaks at the Knesset in this file photo.

‘More than just our homes were destroyed’

“Where will you sleep?” a boy sitting on rubble was asked. “We won’t sleep,” he said.

Police in Umm-al-Hiran

Demolitions fuel anger, fear in Arab town of Kalansuwa

Arab citizens throughout the country shuttered shops, schools and offices in observance of a one-day general strike to protest the demolitions.

KALANSUWA RESIDENT Yusuf Makhlouf poses yesterday before the rubble of one of the 11 illegally built homes demolished by the government.

Demolitions in Arab town trigger mayor's resignation, general strike

The demolitions come nearly a month after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quoted in media reports as calling for heightened demolitions in Arab towns.

IDF bulldozer

Ghattas’s detention extended for another day

Balad leader says Joint List MK’s arrest part of larger "attack" on Arabs.

MK Basel Ghattas

Will MK Impeachment Law be used for the first time on Arab Israeli MK?

Ghattas is being investigated for smuggling phones to two Fatah prisoners in Ketziot Prison.

MK Basel Ghattas at Temple Mount

Leading Arab journalist: Should Arab MKs even be in the Knesset?

“If the situation continues like this, it will be necessary to think twice before running for Knesset."

Members of the Joint Arab List gesture during a news conference in Nazareth, January 23