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New right-wing parties keep failing to unseat Likud - opinion

Many have tried unsuccessfully to challenge Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud from the Right, but a more realistic goal would be to take votes away from Naftali Bennett.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening of the government meeting on January 4, 2026.
 MK Ahmad Tibi reacts during a plenum session in the Knesset on November 21, 2022

Return of Arab Joint List takes seats from opposition while Likud strengthens - poll

 Israeli President Isaac Herzog is seen meeting with Arab women at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 25, 2023.

On a tightrope: Israel’s Arab citizens and the war with Hamas - opinion

 Joint List final list, without Balad, as the parties broke apart, September 16, 2022.

The Joint Arab List split up alters the political landscape - analysis


The changing status of Israel’s Arab population - opinion

This complicated reality is undoubtedly reflected in the new political constellation created by Israel’s 36th government, and the way the Jewish opposition speaks of and relates to the Arab MKs.

PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett and MK Mansour Abbas in the Knesset. This week, various members of the coalition – foremost Abbas’s Ra’am party – signaled that they may not vote for the budget if certain conditions were not met.

Tibi leaves Holocaust commemoration event as Ben-Gvir reads victims' names

Tibi, who opposes Israel as a specifically Jewish state, is fiercely antagonistic towards Ben-Gvir and his far-right, ultra-nationalist party which seeks to encourage Arab emigration from Israel.

Joint list party member Ahmad Tibi speaks during a press conference presenting the Joint list hebrew election campaign in Tel Aviv, February 23, 2021.

Likud MKs fight over potential cooperation with United Arab List

While some Likud members of Knesset see a potential in the Arab party Ra'am, that managed to reach the threshold, others cannot fathom such cooperation.

MK MANSOUR ABBAS (middle front) and members of the Arab Joint List vote  in December to dissolve the Knesset.

Mansour Abbas - From pariah to powerful? - analysis

The Arab sector in Israel has consistently seen unity in the sector as a top priority.

Joint List MK Mansour Abbas alongside Blue and White leader Benny Gantz on Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2020

Election survey: 87% of Israeli Arabs support entering or supporting gov't

Whether enough Jewish parties would be willing to sit with Arabic parties in order to form a government however, remains a different question altogether.

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

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.

Joint List MK Mansour Abbas alongside Blue and White leader Benny Gantz on Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2020

Joint List MKs to Congress Democrats: Do all you can to stop annexation

The letter emphasized that responsibility if annexation goes ahead rests with the Americans as much as the Israelis.

Capitol Hill

Joint List should take part in the unity government combating coronavirus

This virus affects all parts of society. It does not care is you are religious or secular, Jewish or Muslim. In this war, Israel does not fight an Arab or a Muslim enemy.

AYMAN ODEH, leader of the Joint List, gestures as he hands out pamphlets during an an election campaign event in Tira.

Blue and White demanding MKs resign if they don't back minority govt

On Monday, senior Blue and White leader MK Moshe Yaalon reportedly demanded that MKs Tzvi Hauser and Yoaz Hendel either support the minority government or resign from the Knesset.

Former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon speaks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 14, 2016

The big winner in Israel's elections is the Joint List

Members of all four parties – secular, nationalist and religious – took to the streets, held rallies and brought people to the polling stations.

AYMAN ODEH, leader of the Joint List, gestures as he hands out pamphlets during an an election campaign event in Tira.