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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?

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.
MK Yuli Edelstein speaks during a conference at the Reichman University in Herzliya, on January 13, 2026.

Gilad Erdan confirms talks with Benny Gantz on possible election alliance

Yousef Jabareen attends Hadash–Ta'al faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on July 6, 2026.

Hadash-Ta’al, Balad sign deal to re-establish Joint List weeks ahead of Israel's election

Yousef Jabareen attends Hadash–Ta'al faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on July 6, 2026.

Joint List to soon launch without Ra'am, deal in final stages, Hadash-Ta'al leader tells 'Post'


MK Odeh claims 'La Familia' song insults Muhammad, YouTube removes it

The video included a song uploaded by far-right fans of one of Israel's largest Premier League soccer clubs - Beitar Jerusalem.

Jerusalem supporters from the La Familia fan group hold up a match against Charleroi in Belgium

Joint List MKs, activists clash over PIJ hunger-striking prisoner

Video from the scene showed a right-wing activist shouting at the MKs followed by one of them reaching for the activist's phone.

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.

Joint List condemns normalization with Sudan

Former MK and chairman of the Balad party Jamal Zahalka calls for the Sudanese people to overthrow the government because of the normalization agreement.

Israeli Arab lawmaker Jamal Zahalka

Why is the once rising Joint List falling fast in polls?

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Ayman Odeh’s Joint List would fall from the 15 seats it received in the last elections to 11 if Israelis headed to the polls today.

A RESIDENT OF Kafr Kassem votes in 2018.

The Joint List - On the wrong side of history with Israel-UAE deal

Not even one member of the party that represents the Arab minority in Israel thought that establishing ties with an Arab country is a cause worth supporting.

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

Joint List to vote against UAE-Israel peace deal

"An agreement that perpetuates the occupation is not a peace agreement but a bloody agreement that will bring another war."

AYMAN ODEH, leader of the Joint List, gestures as he hands out pamphlets during an an election campaign event in Tira.

Bill proposes giving free masks to all Israelis

There is precedent for distributing masks in Israel. When there was a chemical threat to Israel, all Israeli citizens were given gas masks.

Surgical masks

Ofer Cassif's crocodile tears are also green – opinion

The sad truth is that Cassif’s objections have very little to do with ecology and environmental protection, and everything to do with a scorched-earth policy of anti-normalization in the West Bank.

Ofer Cassif

Palestinian with disabilities shot by guards at Kalandiya crossing

Members of the Joint List decried the shooting, calling it an example of "the daily violation of the rights of the Palestinians."

A young Palestinian sits and two IDF soldiers stand at the entrance of the Qalandiya crossing, 2019.

Joint List may break up due to division on conversion therapy - report

Ra'am Party leader Mansour Abbas said that the electorate who voted for the list is angry at the support some of its members have shown for the law, and are demanding the dissolution of the list.

AYMAN ODEH, leader of the Joint List, gestures as he hands out pamphlets during an an election campaign event in Tira.