Ra'am

How a Jewish ex-police probes chief could revive Mansour Abbas as Israeli Arab kingmaker - analysis

In an official statement last week, Ra’am’s chairman Mansour Abbas and Segalovitz said they had met and held a “cordial and positive” discussion about the possibility of Segalovitz joining Ra’am.

Yoav Segalovitz, former deputy public security minister attends Internal security committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on November 8, 2021
MK Yoav Segalovich attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 28, 2026.

Ra’am leader Abbas confirms talks over ex-Yesh Atid MK joining Arab party slate

GADI EISENKOT, head of the Yashar party, speaks at the Muni Expo 2026 conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.

Yashar takes lead over Likud as Arab parties projected to receive 10 seats - poll

Ra’am (United Arab List) leader Mansour Abbas pictured at the Knesset, May 11, 2026.

Israel elections: The Zionist case for forming a coalition with the Ra'am - opinion


Government in peril as it mark its first anniversary

In an effort to keep his coalition together, Bennett met Sunday with wavering Yamina MK Nir Orbach

Ra'am Party leader Mansour Abbas and party members at the party headquarters in Tamra, on election night, March 23, 2021.

Bennett's coalition aims for quiet week amid threats to its survival

Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar to 'Post': We will bring the emergency bill "when the time is right"

 JUSTICE MINISTER Gideon Sa’ar confers with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the Knesset. Sa’ar decided to defer Israel’s joining the Istanbul Convention.

Mansour Abbas refuses to rule out government with Netanyahu

Heavy pressure on coalition MKs Zoabi, Ghanaim to resign • Both refuse to back down, say they have no intention to quit Knesset

 Mansour Abbas attends the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on February 22, 2022

Israel can't afford failure of idea that Arab party can be in coalition - analysis

If the Bennett-Lapid government experiment fails, it may or may not, depending on one’s political leanings, be a disaster.

 MK Mazen Ghanaim and MK Nir Orbach exchange words during a vote in the Knesset plenum on June 6, 2022

Ra'am condemns police actions after Shura Council member arrested

The party condemned the arrest of Dr. Muhammad Salma Hassan, a member of the Shura Council of the Islamic Movement.

Israeli security forces stand on a roof top near the compound that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, following clashes on the compound in Jerusalem's Old City, April 15, 2022.

Israel will declare elections by the end of the year - fmr. minister

"If a government is unable to pass laws...then there is no point in its continued existence."

New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar votes in March 2021 elections.

Sa'ar considering new gov't with Likud - report

The justice minister reportedly held talks with a Likud representative about the option of forming a new government without dissolving the Knesset.

 Israel's Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar is seen speaking at the Jerusalem Post annual conference at the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem, on October 12, 2021.

Arabs feel the change of participating in Israeli politics - analysis

For Abbas, entering the political game was about promoting the interests of Arab citizens of Israel while setting the Palestinian issue aside.

 Mansour Abbas, head of the Ra'am party, leads a faction meeting in the Knesset on October 4, 2021

Israel's fragile coalition is drifting from one crisis to another

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: Naftali Bennett’s coalition fixed its Ra’am problem, but new significant woes are on the way.

 PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett sits in the Knesset this week.

Israel's political crisis ends: Ra'am returns to coalition

Ra'am head Mansour Abbas said that the decision to remain in the coalition was made to provide solutions for Arab citizens.

 Ra'am head Mansour Abbas announces the decision to remain in the coalition on May 11, 2022