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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 617

Arab parties

Naftali Bennett attends a commemoration ceremony for a slain Israeli soldier at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, December 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
March 7, 2025, 12:42 am
Ex-PM Bennett says he wouldn’t include Arab parties, only Zionists, in next government
Politician, whose 2021-2022 coalition included an Islamist faction, tells private audience in US that given makeup of Arab parties, it ‘wouldn’t make sense’ to include them now
By Leon Kraiem
Hadash-Ta'al MK Ofer Cassif (center) celebrating after an impeachment vote against him failed in the Knesset, February 19, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz/ Knesset Spokesperson)
February 19, 2024, 10:27 pm
Bid to oust MK Ofer Cassif over backing for ICJ genocide case falls short in Knesset
Parties trade barbs after centrists from Yesh Atid, National Unity and Labor sit out impeachment motion, leaving it five votes short of 90 needed to boot Hadash-Ta’al lawmaker
By Sam Sokol
The state of the Israeli election campaign: Poll of polls, October 23, 2022, showing the number of seats parties would be expected to win if the election was held today, based on a weighing of the latest opinion polls.
October 23, 2022, 2:53 pm
One anti-Netanyahu party below the threshold would almost certainly hand him victory
As the election race enters the final straight, Religious Zionism becomes a problem for Likud, Yesh Atid courts female voters, Gantz shifts focus, Arab parties aim to boost turnout
By Simon Davies and Joshua Hantman
Members of the Hadash and Ta'al factions in the Joint List register their party for the upcoming elections at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, on September 15, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 18, 2022, 2:06 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 18: Was this just the defining moment of the 2022 elections?
Carrie Keller-Lynn on sinking Arab parties and good things that come to rebels who wait; military correspondent Emanuel Fabian on whether Iranian forces are leaving Syria
By ToI Staff
Mansour Abbas, head of Israel's conservative Islamic Ra'am party, speaks during a press conference in the northern city of Nazareth on April 1, 2021. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)
April 4, 2021, 2:12 pm
Poll: 48% of Israelis favor government with outside support from Arab parties
Opposition to the notion has dropped since February 2020, including among voters for right-wing parties Likud, Yamina and Religious Zionism, the Israel Democracy Institute finds
By Stuart Winer
Ma'an party leader Ahmad Darawsheh stands in the middle of a group of Joint List politicians in front of a slogan declaring the parties' unity (Courtesy: Ma'an)
March 16, 2021, 11:39 pm
Arab-Jewish Ma’an party drops out of election race, endorses Joint List
Party sought to focus on social-economic issues and enter the coalition, but failed to pick up enough steam to pass the electoral threshold
By Aaron Boxerman
This handout photo provided by the Magen David Adom (MDA) national emergency service on March 24, 2020, in Beersheba shows two paramedics praying outside an ambulance of the American Friends of Magen David Adom (AFMDA): a Jew from Beersheba facing Jerusalem, and an Arab from Rahat facing Mecca (MAGEN DAVID ADOM)
March 31, 2020, 3:38 am
Arab and Jewish medics together on frontline of Israel’s virus fight
Amid societal divisions and political schisms, the coronavirus crisis is highlighting the collaborative nature between peoples in country’s health services
By Majeda El-Batsch
A campaign ad on a billboard in an Arab town ahead of the April 9, 2019 election urging Arabs to boycott the vote. (Channel 2 screen capture)
September 12, 2019, 11:45 pm
Right-wing Jews said behind billboards calling on Arabs not to vote
Campaigns to suppress the vote in April were commissioned by Jews, with an American nonprofit footing the bill in one case, report says
By ToI Staff
MK Ayman Odeh, leader of the Joint List seen outside a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, August 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 25, 2019, 2:35 pm
Joint List head: Unity government would make me first Arab opposition leader
Ayman Odeh accuses Benny Gantz of assisting Netanyahu in keeping Arab lawmakers out of power, says Blue and White chief’s politics are ‘not ripe’
By Raoul Wootliff
Ayman Odeh, head of the Arab Joint List, outside a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on right-wing petitions seeking to disqualify his party from running in the September elections, on August 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 25, 2019, 3:40 am
Given cold shoulder, Arab party chief attacks ‘racist’ Blue and White
Ayman Odeh accuses Benny Gantz of lacking courage after center-left party all but rejects possibility of Arab-led faction joining coalition
By ToI Staff
(L-R) Mtanes Shehadeh, Ayman Odeh, Ahmad Tibi and Mansour Abbas, heads of the four Arab-majority parties that form the Joint List, registering their alliance at the Central Elections Committee at the Knesset on August 1, 2019. (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)
August 22, 2019, 1:13 pm
Blue and White MKs rule out center-left coalition with Arab lawmakers
Arab MKs seethe over Ayman Odeh’s apparent change of long-held stance; Likud, other right-wing parties bash Gantz and Lapid over prospect of Jewish-Arab alliance
By Michael Bachner
Ayman Odeh, chairman of the Joint List, speaks during a press conference in Nazareth, July 27, 2019. (Flash90)
August 22, 2019, 10:06 am
Top Arab lawmaker says he is willing to join a center-left government
Joint List head Ayman Odeh breaks with longstanding position, but sets conditions that include ‘ending the occupation,’ nixing nation-state law, fighting crime rates in Arab areas
By Michael Bachner
Hadash-Ta'al chairman Ayman Odeh speaks at a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the Tel Aviv Museum on May 25, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)
August 1, 2019, 9:57 pm
Top Arab MK says open to ‘joining’ Gantz
Ayman Odeh’s spokesman says the Joint List leader meant ‘cooperation’ only, won’t join Blue and White-led coalition
By Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Yisrael Beytenu head, Avigdor Liberman, right. (Flash90)
June 24, 2019, 5:23 pm
Liberman: PM seeking minority coalition with Haredim propped up by Arab parties
Netanyahu grasps that he can’t form right-wing coalition without Yisrael Beytenu and therefore will rely on outside support from non-Zionist factions, former defense minister says
By Jacob Magid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with representatives of the Joint (Arab) List party to discuss enlarging the budgets for Arab towns in Israel, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on August 31, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
June 23, 2019, 7:46 pm
Likud MK says Netanyahu mulled forming coalition with Arab parties
Miki Zohar says PM ultimately rejected reaching out to Ra’am-Balad and Hadash-Ta’al, as he scrambled to cobble together government; parties deny claim
By Jacob Magid
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