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Eisenkot leads Netanyahu but deadlock looms, election polls show two days before Israelis vote

The average gap between the two major blocs stands at 4.5 seats, with neither reaching the 61-seat majority needed to form a government.

(L-R): Yashar head Gadi Eisenkot; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
ILLUSTRATIVE: View of the Arab-Israeli town of Bayada, northern Israel. February 13, 2025.

Most young Arab Israelis are willing to vote for non-Arab parties, demand solution for crime - poll

An altercation between Otzma Yehudit affiliated activists and activists attending an event at the Joint List Hebrew-language headquarters, October 15, 2026.

Right-wing activists affiliated with Otzma Yehudit invade Arab Joint List Tel Aviv headquarters

Head of Ra'am Mansour Abbas holds a joint press conference with new party member Yoav Segalovich in Nazareth.

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


Poll finds waning support for the Joint List

Some 46% are displeased with the party and the rest don't know.

MK Haneen Zoabi [L] speaks at a news conference announcing the Joint List political slate of all the Arab parties with Ahmed Tibi [R], in Nazareth in 2015

Knesset approves breakup of Joint Arab List

MK Ahmad Tibi announced that he would leave the Joint List ahead of the April 9 election and that his party will run independently.

Israeli Arab lawmakers from the Joint Arab List (from L to R) Osama Saadi, Ahmed Tibi, Ayman Odeh, Masud Ganaim and Haneen Zoabi stand in front of the Dome of the Rock during a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City July 28, 2015.

Haneen Zoabi: I will not be running in the coming elections

Zoabi has long been one of the Knesset’s most controversial members, since first being elected to the legislature in 2009.

MK Haneen Zoabi

It's the personality, stupid: Parties to focus on big names, not ideology

Unsurprisingly in an era of personality politics, political platforms and ideology are not the major problem for any of the parties.

Bennett and Netanyahu shake hands in Knesset

Joint List leader: I hope Liberman will exit the Knesset entirely

Joint List leader Ayman Odeh joked he is considering asking Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein to always sit next to Liberman, as that would ensure Liberman leaving the building.

Ayman Odeh, head of the Joint Arab List

Joint List MKs meet with Arab League to fight Nation-State Law

“In the past, Israel has presented itself as a democratic country. But Netanyahu with this apartheid law has made Israel into a racist state."

Joint List MKs Ayman Odeh, Jamal Zahalka and Haneen Zoabi at the Tel Aviv University Nakba Day protest

Odeh to Mogherini: EU must condemn Israel

Arab MKs to accuse Israel of Apartheid at EU

Ayman Odeh shakes hands with Federica Mogherini in Brussles, September 4, 2019

Bennett condemns Joint List MKs for support of Corbyn

The letter to Corbyn praised him for "his long-standing solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world."

Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting at the prime minister office in Jerusalem January 8, 2017.

Palestinian bandwagon

This week, yet again, some Israeli Arab MKs joined Palestinian leaders in choosing lawfare over the chance for progress.

Israeli Arab lawmakers from the Joint Arab List (from L to R) Osama Saadi, Ahmed Tibi, Ayman Odeh, Masud Ganaim and Haneen Zoabi stand in front of the Dome of the Rock during a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City July 28, 2015.

Arab MKs and Palestinians jointly seek to censure Israel at U.N.

“Anyone who cooperates with the Palestinian Authority against Israel should ask themselves whether their rightful place is in the Palestinian or Israeli parliament,” Edelstein said.

Attending the conference at the Knesset yesterday are, from second left, B’Tselem head Hagai El-Ad and MKs Aida Touma-Sliman, Ayman Odeh and Dov Henin