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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.

|ByORI WERTMAN
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

The revived Joint List would win 13 seats, up from the 10 currently projected when the parties ran separately. The seats came at the expense of Yesh Atid, Naftali Bennett, and Gadi Eisenkot.

|ByMOSHE COHEN
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

|ByARIK RUDNITZKY
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

Arab-Israeli lawmaker warns of third intifada after Friday attack

Ayman Odeh leaders criticize closure of Aksa Mosque after two policemen are shot dead.

JULY 16, 2017ByLAHAV HARKOV, BEN LYNFIELD
HADASH MK Ayman Odeh, leader of the Joint Arab List, speaks at the Knesset in this file photo.

PA'S Abbas, Arab MKs welcome Gabbay's Labor leadership win

Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay stressed both security and readiness to negotiate with the Palestinians in his leadership election campaign.

JULY 13, 2017ByBEN LYNFIELD
Avi Gabbay, the new leader of Israel's centre-left Labor party, delivers his victory speech after winning the Labor party primary runoff, at an event in Tel Aviv

Ghattas accuses Joint List head Odeh of being a Zionist 'agent'

Ex-MK Basel Ghattas tears into Joint List chairman Ayman Odeh just before entering prison for smuggling.

JULY 4, 2017ByBEN LYNFIELD
MK Basel Ghattas

Arab leaders ask Rivlin for better crime-fighting

The meeting took place at the annual iftar dinner hosted by President Reuven Rivlin on Monday.

JUNE 13, 2017ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN addresses the Holocaust Remembrance Day opening ceremony at Yad Vashem on Sunday

Law, order and the conflict

Presently, Arab citizens are under the impression that homicide victims are not treated equally in the State of Israel. Jewish and Arab blood must be valued identically.

JUNE 6, 2017ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Cars set on fire in a riot in Kafr Kasim.

1 killed, police cars set on fire in riots in Arab-Israeli city

Clashes turned deadly in Kafr Kasim after a citizen resisted arrest.

JUNE 6, 2017ByALON HACHMON, YASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA, JPOST.COM STAFF
Cars set on fire in a riot in Kafr Kasim.

Joint List MK Zoabi praises Swiss war crimes probe of Livni

Livni decided not to participate at an event in Brussels in January after authorities there said she could be detained.

JUNE 2, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN
MK Haneen Zoabi at the High Court of Justice

Gal-On, Odeh, PA official support dividing Jerusalem

“There will be no peace without the division of Jerusalem," Meretz chairwoman Zehava Gal-On said.

MAY 24, 2017ByADAM RASGON
Zehava Gal-On, Ayman Odeh and Mahmud Habash

Knesset to hold discussion on Ghattas’s impeachment

The impeachment process began after Environmental Protection Minister Ze’ev Elkin gathered 71 lawmakers to support the move.

MARCH 13, 2017ByUDI SHAHAM
Balad MK Basel Ghattas

Ayelet Shaked: Arab MKs to blame for deaths

“Along with left-wing NGOs, Odeh’s incitement terrorism is leading to the never-ending unrest of the Negev Beduin residents,” she wrote on Facebook.

JANUARY 19, 2017ByUDI SHAHAM
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked