Joint arab list

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. 

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

 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

 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


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.

MK Haneen Zoabi

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.

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.

Ayman Odeh, head of the Joint Arab List

Joint List MKs meet with Arab League to fight Nation-State Law

“In the past, Israel has presented itself as a democratic country. But Netanyahu with this apartheid law has made Israel into a racist state."

Joint List MKs Ayman Odeh, Jamal Zahalka and Haneen Zoabi at the Tel Aviv University Nakba Day protest

Odeh to Mogherini: EU must condemn Israel

Arab MKs to accuse Israel of Apartheid at EU

Ayman Odeh shakes hands with Federica Mogherini in Brussles, September 4, 2019

Bennett condemns Joint List MKs for support of Corbyn

The letter to Corbyn praised him for "his long-standing solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world."

Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting at the prime minister office in Jerusalem January 8, 2017.

Palestinian bandwagon

This week, yet again, some Israeli Arab MKs joined Palestinian leaders in choosing lawfare over the chance for progress.

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.

Arab MKs and Palestinians jointly seek to censure Israel at U.N.

“Anyone who cooperates with the Palestinian Authority against Israel should ask themselves whether their rightful place is in the Palestinian or Israeli parliament,” Edelstein said.

Attending the conference at the Knesset yesterday are, from second left, B’Tselem head Hagai El-Ad and MKs Aida Touma-Sliman, Ayman Odeh and Dov Henin

Undeterred: Haneen Zoabi, the Joint List and new political struggles

The outspoken and controversial Knesset member talks about BDS, the Arab Spring and how she hopes the Joint List will struggle harder against right-leaning politics in Israel.

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 event on ‘children of occupation’ angers Right

The MKs also announced that they would show a documentary about the suffering of Palestinian children, but the Knesset does not permit showing videos at meetings.

THE MINARET of a mosque is seen near the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan