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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?

|BySHIR PERETS
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.
GADI EISENKOT, head of the Yashar party, speaks at the Muni Expo 2026 conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.

Yashar takes lead over Likud as Arab parties projected to receive 10 seats - poll

The poll also scrutinized how voters would react to a scenario in which Hadash, Ta'al, and Balad united to run as a joint list, or if a so-called "third bloc" formed.

|ByLEO FEIERBERG BETTER, MAARIV
MK Ahmad Tibi reacts during a plenum session in the Knesset on November 21, 2022

Arab parties move to reestablish Joint List without Ra’am after disagreements with Abbas

Polls have shown that if the Arab parties were to run together, they would receive more seats than they would obtain in a separate run.

|ByKESHET NEEV
Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas.

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.

|ByASHER SMITH

Opportunity for change

Since 1992, when supporting late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, the Arab parties enacted a policy not to support any candidate from neither the Right nor the Left.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019ByJPOST EDITORIAL
MK Ayman Odeh, the leader of Hadash-Ta'al Party, and Benny gantz, head of the Blue and White Party.

Joint List endorses Gantz without Balad, giving Netanyahu majority

Blue and White decides to forego first shot to form government

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN
President Reuven Rivlin has Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz shake hands at memorial ceremony for former president Shimon Peres

Arab MKs: Netanyahu era is over

“We’re back to being the third largest party in the Knesset,” said Joint List head MK Ayman Odeh.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
AYMAN ODEH, leader of the Joint List.

Netanyahu predicts 15 seats for Joint List

The prime minister based his prediction on data presented in English at the meeting by his American pollster, John McLaughlin.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN
Can he win again? Prime Minister and Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu

Odeh reiterates Joint List will not be part of Gantz government

Says sees himself as future prime minister of the State of Israel

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019ByTZVI JOFFRE, LAHAV HARKOV
Joint List leader Ayman Odeh addresses the Knesset: Odeh has suggested, for the first time, that Israeli Arabs would be willing to join a government coalition

Tibi puts price tag on Gantz blocking majority

Tibi said his demands include a development plan for the Arab sector that would cost 64 billion shekels over 10 years or 32 billion over five years.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN
IMPORTANT VOICES too. Election campaign banners depict Ahmad Tibi and Ayman Odeh, leaders of the Hadash-Ta’al joint list that ran in the April elections

Far right Otzma, Likud file appeal demanding Arab parties be disqualified

According to Otzma, its appeal included evidence that the four Arab parties comprising the Joint List support terrorism.

AUGUST 20, 2019ByJEREMY SHARON
An advertisement for the Otzma Yehudit party featuring Michael Ben-Ari, Baruch Marzel, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Benzti Gopstein in Jerusalem, February 14, 2019

Ayman Odeh to Barak: Get off the public stage; you should be left in the past

"Nineteen years have passed since you were responsible for the killing of thirteen Arab citizens because they took to the streets," he said.

AUGUST 18, 2019ByMAARIV ONLINE
ARABS HAVE full representation in the Knesset, with MKs such as Ayman Odeh (Joint List).

Survey finds that as many as 74% of Arab Israelis could vote in September

Polls shows one-third of Arab citizens of Israel are still undecided about heading to the ballot box, but they could be persuaded.

JULY 30, 2019ByMAAYAN HOFFMAN
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

AG: Joint List can run, Bayit Yehudi combines allowed

Mandelblit rejects attemps to disqualify Arab, far-right Jewish candidates and parties.

MARCH 4, 2019ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Avichai Mandelblit