Ahmad Tibi

Israel Election 2026: What do Yousef Jabareen’s Joint Arab List and Mansour Abbas’ Ra’am stand for?

If I put this ballot in the box, what government, policies, and political reality am I helping create?

Members of the Joint List arrive for a meeting with Israeli president Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on September 22, 2019.
Aftermath of West Bank mosque set on fire by settlers, July 26, 2026.

Israeli settlers set fire to West Bank mosque, leave graffiti calling for ‘revenge for Benayahu’

A PALESTINIAN man walks past Hebrew graffiti that reads, ‘Death to Arabs,’ on the wall of a home allegedly damaged house by Israeli settlers in the village of Deir al-Hatab in the West Bank, in March 2026.

Two Palestinians killed, four wounded in West Bank settler attack on school

THE PRIESTLY BLESSING takes place at the Western Wall, April 5, 2026.

Western Wall priestly blessing limited to 50 as High Court permits larger anti-war protests


Islamic Movement leader Raed Salah's appeal rejected, to serve 11 month sentence

Salah is scheduled to begin serving his sentence on November 15.

Sheikh Raed Salah

Israeli-Arab leadership, PM reach budget deal worth 900m to avert strike

A 5-year plan would include a 350m budget and another 135m would include funding for community and nature centers and youth groups. Another 150m would go to boosting police and security.

Ayman Odeh (3rd R), head of the Joint Arab List, reacts with members of the party after exit poll results in Nazareth March 17

Erdan: Force-feeding bill will save lives

Knesset committee works on bill that would allow prisons, with permission from a judge, to use a feeding tube on prisoners who refuse to eat.

Gilad Erdan

Tibi quietly meets with ministers and achieves results for Arab public

MKs Tibi and Sa’adi found a quick solution with Interior Minister to decrease bureaucratic obstacles to enable rapid construction in 4 Arab towns; MRI machine attained for Nazareth hospital.

Ta’al Party Chairman Ahmad Tibi (Right) and fellow party MK Osama Sa’adi (Left)

Touma-Sliman becomes first head of a permanent Knesset committee from Arab party

Joint List MK took the helm of the Knesset Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women.

MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Joint List)

Joint List proposes bills to create Arab city, university

Tibi to ‘Post’: This is a basic right of the Israeli Arab public.

Ayman Odeh (3rd R), head of the Joint Arab List, reacts with members of the party after exit poll results in Nazareth March 17

Tibi: Shame on Arab world for ignoring massacre of Palestinians at Syria refugee camp

"There is a moral double standard. If other people were the victims, not Palestinians it would be different," Israeli Arab MK says.

Residents queue up to receive humanitarian aid at the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, in Damascus.

Israeli, Arab politicians in heated debate over teaching Nakba narrative to Israeli students

"Teaching Nakba is a fundamental mistake,” Sa’ar says.

MK Ahmed Tibi (UAL - Ta'al) in the Knesset.

Tibi: Israeli public acted in tribal manner, so we’re left with Netanyahu

"Rise for Arab list is not dramatic success, but a good start."

Members of the Joint Arab List gesture during a news conference in Nazareth, January 23

Tibi to ‘Post’: Bibi can relax, I don’t want to be on the Defense Committee

Tibi echoed the Joint List head comments to Post implying that negotiations would take place with Herzog in order to seek a deal to recommend him for PM.

Ahmed Tibi casts his  vote near his home in Taybeh