Arab parties

'Time to intensify efforts': Hadash Party backs mass protest against Gaza starvation in Tel Aviv

Thousands of peace activists will stand together, participating in an anti-war, anti-hunger protest in Tel Aviv backed by the Hadash Arab party.

|ByKESHET NEEV
Arabs and Israelis protest against the current war in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, April 24, 2025
MK Ahmad Tibi reacts during a plenum session in the Knesset on November 21, 2022

Arab parties agree to move ahead with reestablishing Joint List bloc for next elections

MK Ahmad Tibi said that “the four Arab lists must run together in a joint slate,” due to "the challenges facing Arab society in Israel and the state as a whole."

|ByKESHET NEEV
Yair Lapid (left), Mansour Abbas (center left), Arye Deri (center right), Bezalel Smotrich (right), in front of a hostage deal protest (illustrative).

Joint list of Arab parties would win at least 13 seats - poll

A large majority supports integration in government: If an election were held today, a list combining the four central Arab parties would win at least 13 seats.

|ByELIAV BREUER
Iman Yassin Khatib, poised to become the first lawmaker in Israel's history to wear a hijab or head scarf, which she does as a Muslim, following results of her Arab Joint List party in Israel's election, participates in an interview in a radio show in Naz

Ra’am MK asked to resign after denying slaughter of babies

MK Iman Khatib-Yassin apologized Sunday evening for her words to the Knesset channel according to which "we did not slaughter babies or rape women" in the attacks on October 7.

|ByARIELLA MARSDEN

Hadash-Ta'al head Ayman Odeh to leave Israeli politics

"Thank you all from the bottom of my heart," he wrote on Facebook. "I have decided not to run for the next term of the Knesset."

MAY 16, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
MK Ayman Odeh speaks during a faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on February 6, 2023.

Election 2022: Anything can still change before Tuesday night - analysis

There are no polls published in the 72 hours before the election, and the next polls will be exit polls published after the polls close on Tuesday.

OCTOBER 30, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
Ayelet Shaked, Interior Minister and head of the Jewish Home party speaks during a press conference in Ramat Gan, October 25, 2022.

70% of Israeli-Arabs 'certain' or 'think' they will vote, poll finds

The actual vote is expected to be approximately 50%, expert says.

OCTOBER 27, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
An Israeli Arab stands behind a voting booth before casting her ballot at a polling station in the northern town of Umm el-Fahm March 17, 2015. Millions of Israelis turned out to vote on Tuesday in a tightly-fought election, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing an uphill battle to defeat a

Arab MKs' statements supporting terror influence Jewish Israelis too - analysis

Hadash-Ta'al MK Aida Touma Suleiman posted on Facebook in memorial of terrorists killed by the IDF, calling them martyrs.

OCTOBER 26, 2022ByHERB KEINON
Joint List MK Aida Touma-Sliman

Israel elections: Arab sector voting at all-time low - poll

Last year the Israeli-Arab population voting percentage dropped to 44.6%, an all-time low.

AUGUST 29, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
JOINT LIST leader MK Ayman Odeh stands and shouts his objections during a debate in the Knesset, as Ra’am leader MK Mansour Abbas sits to the left.

What happens when opposition declares the government to be illegitimate?

The prospective government was referred to by its opponents as based on fraud, dangerous to Israel’s security, “Left,” incoherent and therefore illegitimate.

JUNE 27, 2021BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
THE NEW Israeli government is ruled by the ‘non-decision-making process’ in the mutual veto power granted to Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett (left) and Yesh Atid Party leader Yair Lapid.

Israel is ready for an Arab party in the governing coalition - editorial

More than a fifth of Israel’s nine million citizens are Arabs, and there is every reason to include an Arab party in the new coalition.

MARCH 30, 2021ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas at the party headquarters in Tamra, on election night, March 23, 2021.

Election survey: 87% of Israeli Arabs support entering or supporting gov't

Whether enough Jewish parties would be willing to sit with Arabic parties in order to form a government however, remains a different question altogether.

MARCH 14, 2021ByIDAN ZONSHINE
An Israeli Arab casts her ballot at a polling station inside a church in the northern town of Reineh, March 17, 2015.

Yesh Atid's Yair Lapid willing to cooperate with Arab parties

Lapid’s answer is a positive sea-change in the political discourse surrounding the Joint Arab List.

MARCH 1, 2021ByJEFF BARAK
MK YAIR LAPID: Arab parties deserve being part of decision-making process.

Netanyahu attempts to rally the Arab vote

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled on Friday to the Arab town of Umm el-Fahm to personally witness the one-millionth person in Israel to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

JANUARY 3, 2021ByJPOST EDITORIAL
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu announces a peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, during a news conference at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on Thursday.

Kfar Bara leads the way among Israeli-Arab localities

Kfar Bara is characterized by a homogeneous population of 100% Muslim Arabs and has enjoyed relative electoral stability and strong local leadership for the last 15-odd years.

JULY 2, 2020ByRUTH WASSERMAN LANDE
A bird’s eye view of Kfar Bara, a thriving Muslim Arab community in central Israel with some 3,000 residents