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With two days until election: Eisenkot leads over Netanyahu, but neither can reach majority - poll

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
BALLOT PAPERS of various political parties displayed at the Central Elections Committee warehouse in Shoham, Oct. 14.

Beyond the polls: What are Israelis really thinking as they head to the ballot box?

MK Ahmad Tibi attends Hadash–Ta'al faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on June 29, 2026.

Ahmad Tibi outlines plan to oust Netanyahu after elections if neither bloc forms majority

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


Israel Elections: Joint Arab List breaks up, leaving Mansour Abbas out

Ra'am decided to leave the Joint List last week after the other parties refused two ultimatums to vote together against LGBTQ issues, and to allow Abbas greater freedom to vote with the Right.

Members of the Joint List hold hands to celebrate the signing of their joint run, Feb. 4, 2021.

Grindr users surprised to find profile of anti-LGBTQ+ MK Mansour Abbas

The profile was likely created in response to the MK's negative views towards homosexuality, w after Abbas dismantled the Joint List earlier this week due to disagreements about LGBTQ+ rights.

DEPUTY KNESSET SPEAKER Mansour Abbas: I accept the democratic choices of Jewish-Israeli society, just like I ask Jewish-Israeli society to accept the choices of Arab-Israeli society.

As Election Day approaches, Arab society is more fractured than ever

ARAB AFFAIRS: Within Arab politics, there is also dissension and fracture.

POLICE SCUFFLE with Arab-Israelis in Nazareth during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the city earlier this month.

Israel Elections: Joint List on verge of breaking up

Odeh's party: No Likud branch will be allowed inside the Joint List

MK MANSOUR ABBAS (middle front) and members of the Arab Joint List vote  in December to dissolve the Knesset.

Israel Elections: Poll finds Yair Lapid, Gideon Sa'ar tied for second

Coalition can be formed without Likud, haredim and Arabs.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein seen during the vaccination of the two million recipients, in Ramla, January 14, 2021.

‘PA, not Arab MKs, responsible for establishing Palestinian state’

Most Arab Israelis would like to see their representatives in the Knesset focus less on the Palestinian issue and more on problems facing the Arab sector.

JOINT LIST MKs (from left) Mtanes Shehadeh, Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi, and former MK Abd al-Hakeem Hajj Yahya meet at the Knesset, September 17, 2020

Israel Elections: The Arab vote's short-term, long-term significance

Israeli Arabs have been shut out of key political positions of influence not only because of a discriminatory policy, but also because of their own political choices.

An Israeli-Arab father casts a ballot together with his children, as Israelis vote in a parliamentary election, at a polling station in Umm al-Fahm, Israel April 9, 2019

Disgruntled Arab candidates search for new ‘political homes’

At this stage, it’s not clear whether the four parties comprising the Joint List – Hadash, United Arab List, Ta’al and Balad – would again run together in the next election.

MK MANSOUR ABBAS (middle front) and members of the Arab Joint List vote  in December to dissolve the Knesset.

Joint List MK kicked out of c'tee after harsh comments towards UAE guests

"There is one party in our parliament that voted against the Abraham Accords. They refuse to acknowledge that it is a new Middle East."

Emirati guests at a meeting of the Knesset Special Committee for the Israeli Citizens' Fund

Joint List MK Abbas would sit in Netanyahu-led gov't, feels used by Left

"I am not ruling it out depending on the circumstances and conditions," Abbas said about joining a Netanyahu-led government.

Joint List MK Mansour Abbas alongside Blue and White leader Benny Gantz on Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2020