Arab MKs

Hundreds attend the funeral of 19-year old Israeli soldier Ron Kokia in the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery on December 3, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

December 24, 2017, 4:56 pm

Confronting suspects, parents of slain soldier urge killers be put to death

Family members of Ron Kokia call suspects Khaled Abu Jaudah and Zahi Abu Jaudah dogs and pigs in court as indictments filed

By TOI staff

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman (R) and MK Robert Ilatov (L) attend a party faction meeting at the Knesset on April 30, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)

December 11, 2017, 6:38 pm

Defense minister: Arab MKs are ‘war criminals,’ should ‘go back to Gaza’

‘You’re sitting here by mistake,’ Liberman tells Arab lawmakers in parliament, accuses them of attempting to ‘destroy us from the inside’

By Marissa Newman

Meretz MK Issawi Frej attends a Economic committee meeting at the Knesset on July 12, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

November 7, 2017, 6:31 pm

Arab MK set to join Knesset’s most sensitive and powerful security committee

Meretz’s Issawi Frej would be the first Arab lawmaker to sit on the Foreign Affairs and Defense panel since 2006

By TOI staff

Arab- Israeli parliament member Osama Saadi reacts during a debate at the Interior Affairs committee meeting on November 10, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

July 21, 2017, 7:14 pm

Arab MK: ‘Whole Arab world will rise up’ if Israel doesn’t remove metal detectors

Osama Saadi says Netanyahu ‘playing with fire’ on Temple Mt.; fellow Joint List legislator Taleb Abu Arar says ‘third intifada started today’

By TOI staff and Raoul Wootliff

Members of the Joint (Arab) List and members of the Islamic Waqf walking towards the Old City of Jerusalem in an attempt to get to the Temple Mount, July 21, 2017. (Courtesy: Joint Arab List)

July 21, 2017, 2:05 pm

Arab MKs try to reach Temple Mount amid clashes between protesters, police

Police say ‘an uproar was caused by the arrival of the public figures, who riled up those waiting’ at an Old City checkpoint

By Raoul Wootliff

Police Chief Roni Alsheich (2r) visits the Temple Mount after a terror attack on July 14, 2017. (Police spokesperson)

July 16, 2017, 12:13 pm

Ban on MKs visiting Temple Mount ‘likely’ to be extended

Seven-day trial period was set to start next week; Likud MK who petitioned High Court against restriction calls on PM to ‘fulfill promises’ to open site

By Raoul Wootliff

On a tour of the Temple Mount, Yehuda Glick shows religious Jews a diagram of the Jewish temple, believed to have once stood where the golden Dome of the Rock stands today. September 17, 2013.(Christa Case Bryant/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images)

July 2, 2017, 3:18 pm

Netanyahu to lift ban on MKs visiting Temple Mount

Seven-day trial period to start in 3 weeks; decision comes after Likud MK petitioned High Court against restriction

By TOI staff

Lawmakers from the Joint (Arab) List meet with European Union representatives in the Knesset, January 18, 2017. (Courtesy)

January 19, 2017, 5:25 am

Arab MKs complain of ‘cruel Israeli policies’ to EU delegation

Following deadly violence in Umm al-Hiran, Joint List MKs discuss ‘anti-democratic laws’ advanced by Netanyahu government

By TOI staff

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, October 31, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

November 10, 2016, 11:10 pm

Liberman slams Arab MK for attending Arafat memorial

Hawkish defense minister vows to oust Ayman Odeh from Knesset, suggests he become Palestinian Authority lawmaker instead

By TOI staff

Joint (Arab) List MK Jamal Zahalka speaks during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, February 8, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

October 10, 2016, 4:32 pm

With protests outside, police grill Balad MKs in fraud probe

Arab lawmakers denounce investigation into party funding as ‘another step in the political persecution’ of Arab public

By TOI staff

Hanin Zoabi of the Joint (Arab) List in the Knesset on December 22, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

July 2, 2016, 8:25 pm

Zoabi faces 6-month suspension for branding IDF soldiers ‘murderers’

Ethics Committee likely to impose maximum ban, fine on Arab MK for remarks about troops in 2010 raid that caused near riot in plenum

By Tamar Pileggi

April 10, 2016, 6:44 pm

Likud MK wants Arab colleague barred over claims attacks on IDF aren’t terror

Nava Boker says remarks by Zionist Union lawmaker Zouheir Bahloul ‘put a target on soldiers,’ will drop complaint to ethics panel if he apologizes

By Tamar Pileggi

Members of Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah hold their flags during the funeral of a Hezbollah fighter, who was killed while fighting alongside Syrian government forces in Syria, March 1, 2016. (AFP/MAHMOUD ZAYYAT)

March 8, 2016, 3:47 pm

Neighborhood bullies and familiar news

Hebrew papers struggle to find what’s new in a list of seemingly repetitive stories on local criminals and Arab-Israeli MKs

By Raoul Wootliff

Head of the Joint (Arab) List Ayman Odeh leads the party's weekly faction meeting at the Knesset, June 1, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 10, 2016, 12:58 pm

Joint List leader: PM’s political ‘scheming’ behind ban on Arab MKs

In Jerusalem address, Ayman Odeh hints it was unwise for three lawmakers in his faction to meet with terrorists’ families

By Dov Lieber

Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi attends a Knesset committee meeting, October 26, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

February 9, 2016, 5:14 pm

Israeli gets 4 months in jail for hurling hot tea at Arab MK

Defendant requests leniency while entering plea bargain; Ahmad Tibi, his victim in the 2013 attack, slams light sentence

By TOI staff