Ra'am

Netanyahu’s coalition moves to ban Ra'am from future elections over terror links - report

The initiative stems from a legal battle to designate the Southern Faction of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Ra’am’s parent movement, as a terrorist organization.

Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas.
HEAD OF the Democrats party, Yair Golan, speaks at the anual Berl Katznelson Center (BKC) conference, on May 07, 2026.

Golan: Eisenkot should join Democrats or Bennett-Lapid, opposition should partner with Ra'am

Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference ahead of the vote on the state budget at the Knesset.

Smotrich's October 7 comments should disgust every single one of us - editorial

Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 12, 2026.

Hamas allegedly asked Mansour Abbas to ensure Netanyahu's re-election in 2021 - report


The changing face of Israeli politics - will things ever be the same?

Since the establishment of the new government, people in Israel have gotten to know a new name: Mansour Abbas, head of the United Arab List.

 MK MOSHE GAFNI stands in the Knesset plenum to voice an argument as MK Mansour Abbas watches alongside him.

Meet Mansour Abbas’ radical Jewish adviser - opinion

Dr. Yeela Raanan is a virulently anti-Zionist Jewish-Israeli academic.

MK Mansour Abbas (Ra'am) at the Knesset Plenum, January 3, 2022.

Bennett confronts opposition as controversial electricity bill passes into law

Netanyahu: Black day for democracy and Zionism

 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett yells and points at members of the opposition after the electricity bill is passed, January 2022

Coalition defies legal authority on controversial electricity bill

Ra'am MK to opposition: "Did you think we Arabs would commit suicide in the sea or live in tents?"

THE KNESSET building in Jerusalem holds one of the world’s smallest legislatures.

Mansour Abbas crossed the Rubicon, more need to follow - opinion

This conflict will not end until the rejectionists accept defeat and recognize the legitimacy and permanency of the Jewish State.

 PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett and Ra’am Chairman Mansour Abbas confer in the Knesset last month.

Mansour Abbas’s ‘Jewish state’ bombshell - opinion

Though he deserves kudos for breaking with the longstanding tradition of his peers in the Knesset, let’s keep in mind that he’s a politician with an agenda beyond what he touted in his campaign.

MANSOUR ABBAS, head of the Ra’am Party, is seen after signing the coalition agreement, at Kfar Maccabiah in Ramat Gan, earlier this month.

Mansour Abbas recognizes the reality of Israel - editorial

Abbas’s bold declaration diverges drastically from the traditionally held views of Arab parties in the Knesset that Israel should be a state of all its citizens, and not a Jewish state.

MANSOUR ABBAS in the Knesset.

Mansour Abbas, Mazen Ghananim - 'Will the real Ra'am please stand up?' - comment

Which MK represents the real Ra’am, Ghanaim or Abbas?

 Ra'am head Mansour Abbas attends a a plenum session and a vote on the state budget at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem on November 4, 2021.

Ra'am MK meets with sheikh convicted of inciting terrorism

Right-wing politicians expressed outrage after a Ra'am MK met with a sheikh recently released from prison.

Leader of the northern Islamic Movement Sheikh Raed Salah gestures after leaving the district court in Jerusalem October 27, 2015.

Barkat is Netanyahu’s top successor for Likud leadership - poll

The poll of 650 respondents representing a statistical sample of the Israeli adult population found that Benjamin Netanyahu is by far the strongest candidate as head of Likud.

Nir Barkat and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu present the Likud economic plan during a party event in Tel Aviv on February 16.