Ofer Cassif

Supreme Court allows Ofer Cassif, Ra'am, Joint List to run in 26th Knesset election

The court overturned Central Elections Committee decisions disqualifying MK Ofer Cassif, Ra'am and the Joint List, while Sami Abu Shehadeh withdrew his candidacy during proceedings.

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Head of Ra'am Mansour Abbas holds a joint press conference with new party member Yoav Segalovich in Nazareth.
Members of the Joint Arab List Ahmad Tibi, Sami Abu Shehadeh and Yousef Jabareen arrive to submit their party’s candidate list to the Central Elections Committee at the Knesset in Jerusalem, September 8, 2026; illustrative.

Will Israel's Arab parties be banned from the election? The legal fight explained

A fifth of Israel's voters could be left unrepresented weeks before polls open. Sarah Ben-Nun unpacks the committee's votes, the A-G's split stance, and the Supreme Court's next move. Watch now.

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MK Ofer Cassif attends a House committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on January 30, 2024

Election panel votes to bar Ofer Cassif from Knesset race, Supreme Court review set for next week

The proceedings opened with a separate request to disqualify MK Ofer Cassif. The committee was also scheduled to consider the case against Abu Shehadeh on Wednesday.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Ra’am party chairman Mansour Abbas, together with party member Yoav Segalovich, arrives to submit the party list to the Central Elections Committee, Jerusalem, September 7, 2026; illustrative.

Ra’am, Joint List fight bids to bar them from Knesset election

Ra’am, the Joint List, Balad and two candidates asked the Central Elections Committee to reject six petitions seeking to bar them from the 2026 Knesset election.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN

Edelstein confirms: Coronavirus 'green passports' on their way

Two weeks after receiving a second coronavirus vaccine shot, a person who was vaccinated will receive a green passport.

DECEMBER 16, 2020ByHANNAH BROWN
A nurse carries China's Sinovac vaccine, a potential vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Sao Lucas Hospital of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Ofer Cassif's crocodile tears are also green – opinion

The sad truth is that Cassif’s objections have very little to do with ecology and environmental protection, and everything to do with a scorched-earth policy of anti-normalization in the West Bank.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020ByNAOMI LINDER KAHN
Ofer Cassif

‘Price tag’ attack uncovered in Arab village in northern Israel

Dozens of tires were slashed and graffiti were uncovered in the village of Jish.

FEBRUARY 11, 2020ByROSSELLA TERCATIN, JEREMY SHARON
Graffiti in Arab village of Jish in suspected 'price tag' attack on February 11, 2020.

Palestinian teen shot dead in clashes with IDF in Hebron

Joint List MK Ofer Cassif slammed the IDF when he took to social media to say that “the claims about a Molotov Cocktail, [which may exist] or not don’t matter a thing."

FEBRUARY 5, 2020ByANNA AHRONHEIM, HAGAY HACOHEN
An Israeli soldier stands guard in Hebron

Netanyahu: Liberman is coordinating with Arab Joint List, Gantz

“I hope it’s not so, but it looks like Liberman is coordinating with the Joint List and Blue and White on all the details,” Netanyahu said.

NOVEMBER 10, 2019ByLAHAV HARKOV
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the swearing-in ceremony of the 22nd Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem October 3, 2019

Cassif spoke with Blue and White Party, 'we are committed to ousting Bibi'

"The important thing," he told 101.5 FM radio, "is that we are committed to remove Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from power."

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019ByHAGAY HACOHEN
Ofer Cassif

Cassif calls Netanyahu ‘serial criminal’, Odeh: ‘we won’t be silent’

The Communist Party MK claimed Netanyahu is leading the country to war to avoid serving time in prison.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Ofer Cassif

Left condemns Netanyahu’s silence on Trump

Democratic Union MK Tamar Zandberg and Joint List MK Ofer Cassif insist Netanyahu demand an apology.

AUGUST 22, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN, JEREMY SHARON
Tamar Zandberg