Mansour Abbas

Golan: Eisenkot should join Democrats or Bennett-Lapid, opposition should partner with Ra'am

“I look at the political map. The alliance already underway between Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid will be judged by one question only: Does it enlarge the bloc for change?” Golan said.

|ByKESHET NEEV
HEAD OF the Democrats party, Yair Golan, speaks at the anual Berl Katznelson Center (BKC) conference, on May 07, 2026.
FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference ahead of the vote on the state budget at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 29, 2026.

Gov't with Mansour Abbas would 'obviously' be worse than Oct. 7 massacre, Smotrich charges

According to Smotrich, while the massacre was a tragic and hard-to-digest event, the intentional aspect of a political partnership with an Arab party represents a greater danger in his view.

|ByKESHET NEEV
(L-R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett, Opposition Leader and Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid.

Netanyahu attacks Bennett, Lapid's joint party list announcement with inflammatory video

Members of the Netanyahu-led coalition and the opposition reacted to Bennett and Lapid's announcement that the two will form a joint list for the 2026 Knesset elections.

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

Hamas allegedly asked Mansour Abbas to ensure Netanyahu's re-election in 2021 - report

The official reportedly believed that "Netanyahu was looking for continued calm and quiet understandings, while a new government would be dragged into an operation in the Gaza Strip."

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Equalizing opportunities in the pool

This is the largest swimming project in the Bedouin society in the Negev by The Equalizer non-profit, which operates swimming lessons for children from the Israeli social periphery.

AUGUST 31, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST SPORTS STAFF
SWIMMING SHOULD be a year-round sport and activity for children of all ages.

What election issues are most important to Israeli-Arabs?

Inclusion, economics and crime  top the list of important issues in the upcoming elections

AUGUST 26, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
AN ARAB-ISRAELI man casts a vote in Kafr Manda in the North

Mansour Abbas: We have no ability, influence to stop the operation

The post came as Joint List politicians joined protests in a number of locations across the country against the operation.  

AUGUST 6, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
SITTING AS Knesset deputy speaker, MK Mansour Abbas presides over a debate in the plenum last week.

Mansour Abbas: Ra’am not ruling out anyone in next coalition

The event was held at Ramat Hasharon's Yad Labanim Hall, which serves as a cultural center and includes a monument for IDF soldiers from the city who were killed in action.

JULY 30, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
SITTING AS Knesset deputy speaker, MK Mansour Abbas presides over a debate in the plenum last week.

Israel Elections: Israelis prefer Ben-Gvir to Abbas in next gov't - poll

Netanyahu bloc wins 60 seats, unable to form government • Prime Minister Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid rises to 24, Yamina out of next Knesset

JULY 26, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
MK ITAMAR BEN-GVIR addresses the Knesset plenum as Ra’am (United Arab List) Party leader Mansour Abbas presides during a session in November.

Did a year of change government in Israel bring Jews and Arabs closer?

Mansour Abbas may have changed the Israeli political landscape forever after becoming the first leader of any majority-Arab party to join an Israeli government.

JULY 20, 2022ByNOGA TARNOPOLSKY/JTA
Naftali Bennett and Mansour Abbas in the Knesset.

Grapevine July 20, 2022: They also serve who only stand and wait

Movers and shakers of Israeli society.

JULY 19, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden with President Isaac Herzog and his wife, Michal, at his official residence in Jerusalem, last week.

Israel Election: We must restore hope to Israel's Arab citizens - opinion

Low voter turnout, combined with declarations that the Arab public has no place among Israel’s decision-makers, is liable to create a fertile political climate for populist and racist legislation.

JULY 4, 2022ByMUHAMMED KHALAILY
JOINT LIST leader MK Ayman Odeh stands and shouts his objections during a debate in the Knesset, as Ra’am leader MK Mansour Abbas sits to the left.

Israel's Arab citizens must learn negotiating in uncertainty - opinion

Mansour Abbas’ efforts with the change government showed a steady hand in negotiating complex situations. This is not only what Arab citizens need but what Israel needs.

JULY 3, 2022ByROBERT CHERRY
SITTING AS Knesset deputy speaker, MK Mansour Abbas presides over a debate in the plenum last week.

Beware false election narratives from both the Left and the Right - opinion

Israel continues to be a free, enlightened, creative and exciting place. Do not let radical electioneering disfigure that noble reality.

JUNE 24, 2022ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
THE KNESSET votes in a preliminary reading on Wednesday to dissolve and hold a new election. It is ‘obscene and boorish’ to portray Israeli society as bisected by two warring narratives, says the writer.