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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?

SEPTEMBER 1, 2026|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.

AUGUST 11, 2026|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.

JUNE 10, 2026|ByKESHET NEEV

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.

MAY 28, 2026|ByASHER SMITH

Arab MK Ahmed Tibi’s Ta’al party is gaining strength

Yisrael Beytenu intends to appeal to the Central Elections Committee on Sunday against positive coverage the Joint List is receiving from PA media outlets aimed at Israeli Arab voters.

JANUARY 26, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN

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

Poll: Almost half of Israeli-Arab voters dissatisfied with Joint List

The poll, carried out over the last three days, further revealed that 52% of respondents believe the Joint List does not represent them.

JANUARY 10, 2019ByEYTAN HALON

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

Poll finds waning support for the Joint List

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

JANUARY 10, 2019ByHAGAY HACOHEN

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.

JANUARY 9, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

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.

JANUARY 5, 2019ByEYTAN HALON

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.

DECEMBER 25, 2018ByGIL HOFFMAN

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.

NOVEMBER 24, 2018ByHAGAY HACOHEN