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Hadash elects former MK Yousef Jabareen as party chairman, ousting Ayman Odeh

"We will do everything to prevent the Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, and Smotrich government from continuing for another term," he said in a statement published by Hadash. 

|ByYOAV ETIEL
Dr. Yousef Jabareen
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening of the government meeting on January 4, 2026.

New right-wing parties keep failing to unseat Likud - opinion

Many have tried unsuccessfully to challenge Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud from the Right, but a more realistic goal would be to take votes away from Naftali Bennett.

|ByORI WERTMAN
MK Ahmad Tibi reacts during a plenum session in the Knesset on November 21, 2022

Return of Arab Joint List takes seats from opposition while Likud strengthens - poll

The revived Joint List would win 13 seats, up from the 10 currently projected when the parties ran separately. The seats came at the expense of Yesh Atid, Naftali Bennett, and Gadi Eisenkot.

|ByMOSHE COHEN
Israeli President Isaac Herzog is seen meeting with Arab women at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 25, 2023.

On a tightrope: Israel’s Arab citizens and the war with Hamas - opinion

|ByARIK RUDNITZKY

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

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.