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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

Balad MKs to be questioned by police

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016ByELIYAHU KAMISHER, LAHAV HARKOV
Balad MK Haneen Zoabi at the Knesset.

MK Ghattas calls Peres ‘ruthless colonial settler, covered in blood’

Outrage across political spectrum over Joint List MK slamming former president while he’s in a coma.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV
MK Bassel Ghattas

Politicians call to oust Israeli-Arab MK from Knesset for pro-BDS talk

The lawmaker called Israel an oppressive, racist and apartheid state.

AUGUST 16, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV
MK Bassel Ghattas

13 Jews and Arabs arrested as violence flares in Ashkelon over Palestinian hunger-striker

According to police, 10 Jews and 3 Arabs were arrested; among those were six juveniles and two adults who assaulted police officers.

AUGUST 10, 2016ByELIYAHU KAMISHER
13 Jews and Arabs arrested as violence flares in Ashkelon over Palestinian hunger-striker

Israeli-Arabs reject Netanyahu’s extended hand and apology as insincere

Netanyahu releases English and Hebrew YouTube videos with Arabic subtitles imploring Israeli-Arabs to take part in society "in droves."

JULY 26, 2016ByARIEL BEN SOLOMON, JPOST.COM STAFF
PM Netanyahu: Dear Arab citizens of Israel--take part in our society in droves

Zoabi refuses Knesset bodyguards despite death threats

The Israeli Arab MK allegedly refused to give her schedule to Knesset Security Office Yosef Griff, preventing him from assigning bodyguards to protect her.

JULY 11, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV
Haneen Zoabi speaks at Central Elections Committee hearing to ban her from running for Knesset

Labor MK Bar to Arab League ex-Sec-Gen: Help us negotiate with Palestinians

The MK argued that bilateral Israeli-Palestinian talks will not work on their own, and moderate Sunni states should be enlisted to support negotiations.

JULY 3, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV
Hilik Bar

WATCH: Knesset brawl erupts after Arab Israeli MK calls IDF soldiers 'murderers'

MKs swarm Knesset podium yelling condemnations of Joint List lawmaker Haneen Zoabi and attempt to remove her from the stand.

JUNE 29, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV
Knesset brawl erupts after Arab Israeli MK calls IDF soldiers "murderers," June 29, 2016

Political future of MKs Zoabi, Ghattas in jeopardy

Balad central committee vote seen as a blow to controversial Joint List lawmakers

JUNE 17, 2016ByARIEL BEN SOLOMON
KNESSET MEMBER Haneen Zoabi speaking with the press last year. Her party colleague Basel Ghattas has decided to join the Gaza flotilla

Rivlin calls for a new Israeli agenda

Rivlin said that when he presented his partnership vision of a shared national identity last year, it caused a lot of controversy, and he was even accused of being a post-Zionist.

JUNE 14, 2016ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the 16th annual Herzliya Conference