Ayman Odeh

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

Hadash, Ta'al and Balad are preparing to officially revive the Joint List this week after months of negotiations, with Ra'am remaining outside the alliance for now.

|ByKESHET NEEV
Yousef Jabareen attends Hadash–Ta'al faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on July 6, 2026.
MK GALIT Distel Atbaryan leads the Special Committee for the Communications Law at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, June 29, 2026.

'Terrorist' vs 'Judeo-Nazi': MKs trade barbs over bill barring Red Cross from Israeli prisons

The bill was drafted by Galit Distel Atbaryan, Keti Shitrit, and a group of additional lawmakers. Thirty-six MKs voted in favor of the bill, while 41 opposed it, and it was removed from the agenda.

|ByANNA BARSKY
Jews and Palestinians protest against a law passed by the Knesset imposing the death penalty for terrorists who murder Israeli civilians in the West Bank in Beit Jala, on April 3, 2026.

Arab lawmakers seek to join High Court petition against death penalty law

According to the request, the applicants asked to join after the petition was filed, citing their public interest in the law and involvement in the parliamentary and public debate around it.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
The Reservists Party billboard against haredi and Arab parties, referencing a 2019 campaign by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party, which targeted journalists.

'Only those who serve decide': Reservists Party launches campaign against haredi, Arab parties

The campaign serves as a reference to a 2019 campaign by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party that targeted journalists.

|ByKESHET NEEV

Political Affairs: Netanyahu’s nightmare - Odeh becomes the kingmaker?

The PM’s focus on Arab turnout seems to have only deepened the stalemate in the Knesset and brought the Joint List to historic heights.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019ByLAHAV HARKOV
Joint List leader Ayman Odeh votes, September 17, 2019

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.

Joint List reaches out to Jewish voters in final day of campaign

Central Elections Committee bans NGO from transporting Bedouin voters.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019ByLAHAV 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

Israel Elections 2019: Everything you need to know

The candidates, parties and where they stand.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019ByEZRA TAYLOR
Israel Elections

Jewish-Israeli professors call on public: Vote for the Joint Arab List

The ad, which was headlined in bold letters, “We’re in! Are you?” explained that the Joint List is “home for all those who believe in full civil and national equality for Arabs and Jews."

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
MK Ayman Odeh, co-head of the Israeli-Arab Hadash-Ta'al party at a rally supporting the Supreme Court in Tel Aviv, May 25, 2019

Ayman Odeh, Joint List

Who is Ayman Odeh?

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019ByJEREMY SHARON
Ayman Odeh

Likud blames Liberman for cameras bill falling

Joint List head Ayman Odeh was kicked out for confronting Prime Minister Netanyahu with camera.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset in Jerusalem

Ayman Odeh forcibly removed from Knesset before Cameras Bill vote

"No no, it's not funny. It's really not funny. MK Ayman Odeh, please leave," said Edelstein. "Get out already, I've already heard your speeches."

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
MK Ayman Odeh places camera in PM Benjamin Netanyahu's face during debate on bill legislating filming in polling stations

Netanyahu's Facebook page sends warning of Arabs who 'want to destroy us'

"We turned to Facebook. They must act immediately to put an end to this racist and dangerous incitement by Netanyahu against the Arab population," said Joint List leader Ayman Odeh.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019ByTZVI JOFFRE
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises to do all he can to build a coalition in a press conference Monday 27.05.2019

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