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Israel Election 2026: What do Yousef Jabareen’s Joint Arab List and Mansour Abbas’ Ra’am stand for?

If I put this ballot in the box, what government, policies, and political reality am I helping create?

|BySHIR PERETS
Members of the Joint List arrive for a meeting with Israeli president Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on September 22, 2019.
MK Yuli Edelstein speaks during a conference at the Reichman University in Herzliya, on January 13, 2026.

Gilad Erdan confirms talks with Benny Gantz on possible election alliance

Gantz also criticized calls to form another narrow coalition without the traditional right, arguing that both a narrow “change” government and a fully right-wing government had failed.

|ByYEHUDA SHLEZINGER, 103FM
Yousef Jabareen attends Hadash–Ta'al faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on July 6, 2026.

Hadash-Ta’al, Balad sign deal to re-establish Joint List weeks ahead of Israel's election

The agreement is pending final approval by the three parties, with an official announcement expected in the coming days after negotiations over the framework appeared to reach a breakthrough.

|ByYOAV ETIEL
Yousef Jabareen attends Hadash–Ta'al faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on July 6, 2026.

Joint List to soon launch without Ra'am, deal in final stages, Hadash-Ta'al leader tells 'Post'

Hadash, Ta'al and Balad are preparing to officially revive the Joint List this week after months of negotiations, with Ra'am remaining outside the alliance for now.

|ByKESHET NEEV

Backlash after Kahana says 'If I could ship the Arabs to Switzerland, I would'

Deputy economy minister Yair Golan (Meretz) called opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu a "fatal disease" on Tuesday.

JUNE 14, 2022BySARAH BEN-NUN, GIL HOFFMAN
Deputy Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament on May 16, 2022.

Is Ahmad Tibi the most powerful man in Israel's Knesset?

Ahmad Tibi explains why he accomplished more than Mansour Abbas and questions whether there will be an Arab party in the coalition again any time soon.

JUNE 10, 2022ByGIL HOFFMAN
MK AHMAD TIBI (Joint List) stands near Israeli mounted police outside the Jerusalem District Court last year, during a protest over Israel’s planned evictions of Arab families from homes in Silwan.

Israeli occupation is 'biggest terror' in Middle East - Joint List MK

Israeli occupation gave birth to apartheid and demonization and dehumanization of Palestinians, MK Ofer Cassif charged at a Knesset conference.

JUNE 8, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
MK Ofer Cassif attends a "55 years of occupation" conference in the Knesset, Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem on June 08 2022

Israel Police ask A-G to open probe against Joint List MKs Tibi, Cassif

Opposition MKs Ahmad Tibi and Ofer Cassif were both involved in high-profile incidents with police forces last week.

MAY 16, 2022ByTAL SPUNGIN
(L-R) Joint List MKs Aida Touma-Sliman, Ahmad Tibi and Ofer Cassif seen at a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem August 22, 2019

Coalition MKs upset about cooperating with Joint List in Knesset

A bill advanced on Thursday that would forbid spying for the Palestinian Authority or the European Union.

MAY 12, 2022ByGIL HOFFMAN
L-R Gilad Ach of the Ad Kan organization and Likud MK Avi Dichter.

Will Naftali Bennett’s Passover promise be kept? - opinion

Right from Wrong: Terrorism has had less of an impact on the powers-that-be in Jerusalem than Silman’s exit.

APRIL 14, 2022ByRUTHIE BLUM
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends a cabinet meeting, March 20, 2022.

House Committee to discuss removal of Ayman Odeh from Knesset

Despite probes, legal experts believe the Joint List head cannot be charged for incitement for his call for Arab-Israeli officers to disobey orders.

APRIL 12, 2022ByTAL SPUNGIN
Hadash party leader Ayman Odeh at the Knesset, 2019.

Police probing MK Odeh's call for Arab police officers to disobey orders

The chairman of the Joint List published a video in which he told all new Arab-Israeli police recruits to lay down their arms.

APRIL 11, 2022ByMAARIV ONLINE, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
AYMAN ODEH, leader of the Joint List – he holds a key to the castle, one that only Benny Gantz could use

By boycotting Zelensky, Joint List shows how wrong it is - editorial

Why is the party that claims to be against “occupation” in one place now supporting occupation in another?

MARCH 20, 2022ByJPOST EDITORIAL
AFTER THE right-wing parties of the opposition voted against it, members of the Joint List celebrate the defeat of the citizenship law in the Knesset this week.

Controversial citizenship bill passed into law

The bill aims to tighten immigration controls, making it harder for Palestinians who marry Israeli Arabs to receive citizenship.

MARCH 10, 2022ByGIL HOFFMAN
Ra'am head Mansour Abbas at the Knesset plenum, December 15, 2021.