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.

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

 (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

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


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.

 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.

 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.

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.

Ra’am threatens coalition crisis over Negev tree planting

Ra’am and Joint List MKs have been protesting tree planting in the Negev, claiming the saplings were planted on the property of the al-Atrash family, not state land.

MK Mansour Abbas (Ra'am), October 4, 2021.

The changing face of Israeli politics - will things ever be the same?

Since the establishment of the new government, people in Israel have gotten to know a new name: Mansour Abbas, head of the United Arab List.

 MK MOSHE GAFNI stands in the Knesset plenum to voice an argument as MK Mansour Abbas watches alongside him.

Meet Mansour Abbas’ radical Jewish adviser - opinion

Dr. Yeela Raanan is a virulently anti-Zionist Jewish-Israeli academic.

MK Mansour Abbas (Ra'am) at the Knesset Plenum, January 3, 2022.

Israel’s political plague petered out in 2021

If 2021 will be remembered as the year the political plague Israel was enduring finally petered out, perhaps the same will happen to the coronavirus in 2022. 

 A moving truck stops at the prime minister's official Balfour Street residence, supposedly to transport the Netanyahu's family's belongings

Mansour Abbas crossed the Rubicon, more need to follow - opinion

This conflict will not end until the rejectionists accept defeat and recognize the legitimacy and permanency of the Jewish State.

 PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett and Ra’am Chairman Mansour Abbas confer in the Knesset last month.

Mansour Abbas’s ‘Jewish state’ bombshell - opinion

Though he deserves kudos for breaking with the longstanding tradition of his peers in the Knesset, let’s keep in mind that he’s a politician with an agenda beyond what he touted in his campaign.

MANSOUR ABBAS, head of the Ra’am Party, is seen after signing the coalition agreement, at Kfar Maccabiah in Ramat Gan, earlier this month.

Mansour Abbas recognizes the reality of Israel - editorial

Abbas’s bold declaration diverges drastically from the traditionally held views of Arab parties in the Knesset that Israel should be a state of all its citizens, and not a Jewish state.

MANSOUR ABBAS in the Knesset.