Joint arab list

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

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

Balad, which was one of three parties in the Joint Arab List broke away from the other two, making it less likely that they will pass the electoral threshold.

|ByHERB KEINON
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.

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.

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

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.

|ByJEREMY SHARON

Will Arab faction leader Ayman Odeh start receiving classified security briefings?

Likud MK: Odeh represents our enemies; Joint List chairman would be automatic opposition head if Zionist Union joins coalition, but he may have to fight to keep the position.

MAY 15, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV
Joint List head Ayman Odeh shouts slogans near the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem

MKs beware: Calling each other 'terrorists' or 'Nazis' is now punishable

Though the Ethics Committee has a policy of not punishing lawmakers for speech, it decided to make an exception for personal accusations.

MARCH 21, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV
Ayman Odeh, head of the Joint Arab List

Netanyahu: Gulf States' decision to blacklist Hezbollah a sign of improving ties with Israel

PM pans Israeli Arab MKs' condemnation of Hezbollah terror listing.

MARCH 7, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV, ARIEL BEN SOLOMON
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Knesset factions condemn Gulf Arab states for blacklisting Hezbollah

Hadash and Balad slam the move to label Hezbollah a terrorist organization.

MARCH 7, 2016ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Lebanon's Hezbollah scouts carry their parties flag while marching at the funeral of three Hezbollah fighters who were killed in Syria

Netanyahu instructs A-G to look into Balad MKs’ meeting with terrorists’ families

Speaking to Mandelblit Saturday night, Netnayahu asked him to review legal steps that can be used in response to the lawmakers’ actions.

FEBRUARY 6, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV
Lawmakers from the Joint Arab List stand in front of the Dome of the Rock during a visit to the compound in Jerusalem's Old City, July 28

'Netanyahu inciting against us,' Arab MKs say after visiting terrorists' kin

Earlier this week, the Balad MKs met with the families of 10 terrorists whose bodies have not been released by authorities.

FEBRUARY 5, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV
Lawmakers from the Joint Arab List stand in front of the Dome of the Rock during a visit to the compound in Jerusalem's Old City, July 28