Mansour Abbas

Ra'am, Joint List push community for high voter turnout in hopes of boosting anti-Netanyahu bloc

If no bloc forms a workable government, it could lead to a period of political deadlock and then fresh elections in 2027, with Netanyahu left in charge in the meantime.

|ByREUTERS
Arabs cast their votes at a polling station in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Lod; illustrative.
Mansour Abbas is the head of Ra’am, one of four Arab parties vying for a place in the Knesset.

Israel cannot call itself a democracy while excluding Arabs from political power - opinion

Demanding full equality and opposing military occupation should not place anyone outside legitimate political life. Arab citizens have the same right as Jewish citizens to elect representatives.

|ByJOSH DRILL
Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 12, 2026.

Disqualifying Ra'am from Israeli elections: It’s good for Zionism, bad for democracy - opinion

I support the decision to disqualify Ra’am from the upcoming election. I also believe that disqualifying a political party and denying citizens the ability to vote for it is bad for democracy.

|ByADAM SCOTT BELLOS
Ra’am party chairman Mansour Abbas, together with party member Yoav Segalovich, arrives to submit the party list to the Central Elections Committee, Jerusalem, September 7, 2026; illustrative.

Ra’am, Joint List fight bids to bar them from Knesset election

Ra’am, the Joint List, Balad and two candidates asked the Central Elections Committee to reject six petitions seeking to bar them from the 2026 Knesset election.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN

Israel needs unity, not provocations, now more than anything - editorial

Both extremes think that restraint and tolerance are signs of weakness. They can't be more wrong.

MAY 2, 2022ByJPOST EDITORIAL
PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett shakes hands with MK Mansour Abbas in the Knesset. Large parts of the Jewish population do not recognize Israel’s Arabs as equal citizens.

Naftali Bennett: Proud Hamas wants government toppled

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar slammed Ra'am chief Mansour Abbas for remaining part of the coalition after Temple Mount clashes.

MAY 1, 2022ByGIL HOFFMAN
PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett and Ra’am Chairman Mansour Abbas confer in the Knesset last month.

Mansour Abbas: Coalition crisis with Ra’am remains unresolved

Abbas faced criticism from Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on Saturday for remaining in the coalition.

APRIL 30, 2022ByGIL HOFFMAN
WITHOUT ABBAS, Naftali Bennett would not have become prime minister.

Letters to the Editor April 25, 2022: We never left it

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say

APRIL 24, 2022ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

Ra'am freezes coalition, Knesset membership in Temple Mount protest

Ra'am, headed by MK Mansour Abbas, took this step based on a decision by the party's religious advisory body known as the Shura Council.

APRIL 17, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett shakes hands with MK Mansour Abbas in the Knesset. Large parts of the Jewish population do not recognize Israel’s Arabs as equal citizens.

Mansour Abbas working to restore calm on Temple Mount

Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas reassured the public that his party has no interest in bringing down the government.

APRIL 16, 2022BySHIRA SILKOFF
MK Mansour Abbas during a discussion on the Electricity Law connecting to Arab and Bedouin towns, during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 5, 2022.

68% of Israeli Arabs approve of Arab role in government - poll

Israel’s recently-formed 36th coalition government became the first in the country’s history to include a member from an Arab party.

APRIL 12, 2022ByBEN ZION GAD
MK Mansour Abbas during a discussion on the Electricity Law connecting to Arab and Bedouin towns, during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 5, 2022.

Avigdor Liberman and Mansour Abbas - strange bedfellows? - opinion

Amid the government drama, the lack of tension in the relationship between Finance Minister Liberman and MK Mansour Abbas has been astounding.

APRIL 7, 2022ByMARK REGEV
WITHOUT ABBAS, Naftali Bennett would not have become prime minister.

Mansour Abbas tells Jewish leaders he wants to expand ties with US Jews

The Knesset speaker apologizes to Jewish leaders for damage to relations with Diaspora.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022ByGIL HOFFMAN
Mansour Abbas February 22, 2022.

MK Mansour Abbas: Israel is not an apartheid state

He was responding in a virtual talk at an American pro-Israel think tank, in light of Amnesty International's report last month that made such a claim.

FEBRUARY 11, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
MK Mansour Abbas during a discussion on the Electricity Law connecting to Arab and Bedouin towns, during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 5, 2022.