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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 568

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Israeli Black Panthers founder Charlie Biton as a Knesset member for the mostly Arab left-wing Hadash Party on December 22, 1988. (Ayalon Maggi/GPO)
February 25, 2024, 1:52 pm
Charlie Biton, Black Panther founder who fought for Mizrahi equality, dies at 76
With others from his working-class Jerusalem neighborhood, the activist and Knesset member shook up a country that had for years discriminated against non-European Jews
By Charlie Summers
Standing Together activists protest against the Israel-Hamas war, calling for a ceasefire, in Tel Aviv, on December 28, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
January 18, 2024, 9:58 pm
Cops allow anti-war demo after High Court says the right to protest is ‘fundamental’
Anti-war groups accuse the police of ‘systematically’ suppressing their right to protest due to political agenda, ahead of planned rally in Haifa on Saturday
By Jeremy Sharon
MK Ofer Cassif at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on January 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
January 17, 2024, 8:43 pm
Far-left MK Ofer Cassif indicted for aggravated assault on police officer in 2022
Hadash party legislator says indictment is ‘political persecution,’ points to failure to indict officers who beat him in 2021 as evidence of illegitimate police behavior
By Jeremy Sharon
Mohammad Barakeh, chair of umbrella organization for the Arab community, the High Follow-up Committee in Jerusalem on November 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 9, 2023, 10:05 pm
4 former Arab MKs detained on their way to an anti-war protest
Police allege the planned event threatened public order; Hadash slams ‘silencing of voices for peace’
By ToI Staff
Joint List party chairman Ayman Odeh seen at the party headquarters in the city of Shfaram, on election night, March 23, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)
May 17, 2023, 12:04 am
Arab political leader Ayman Odeh says he won’t run for office again
Surprise announcement by head of erstwhile Joint List catches some colleagues off guard, as MK said looking to make room for new blood — or possibly run for Haifa mayor
By ToI Staff and Carrie Keller-Lynn
Hadash MK Ofer Cassif at a Knesset Arrangements Committee meeting on June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 31, 2022, 6:54 pm
Far-left MK: Kiryat Arba shooter not a terrorist, settlers aren’t innocent civilians
Ofer Cassif, the only Jewish MK in Hadash-Ta’al, says that while he supports a nonviolent struggle, he does not ‘expect the occupied and repressed to just sit and do nothing’
By ToI Staff
Hadash leader Ayman Odeh points during a press conference with lawmakers from the allied Hadash-Ta'al faction as they register their party list on September 15, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 16, 2022, 1:23 am
Arab-led Joint List splits into 2 factions, shuffling political deck at last minute
Drama over rotation deal splinters party into Hadash-Ta’al and Balad, in move that could help Netanyahu back to power; Labor and Meretz finalize independent runs, rebuffing Lapid
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Joint List party chairman Ayman Odeh at a conference in Jerusalem on July 26, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 14, 2022, 10:31 am
Joint List agrees on another united run ahead of deadline for filing Knesset slates
Netanyahu said to promise NIS 3 billion a year for ultra-Orthodox education to ensure joint run of Ashkenazi Haredi parties in UTJ; Meretz still willing to merge with Labor
By ToI Staff
Joint List leader Ayman Odeh (Hadash) at a Knesset faction meeting on March 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 10, 2022, 7:26 pm
Hadash, Balad agree to run again under Joint List, with Tibi’s Ta’al yet to sign on
Parties have been locked in fight over spots on slate with alliance projected to win 5-6 seats; Odeh says Lapid, Gantz ‘will need to sweat a lot’ to get Joint List’s recommendation
By Jack Mukand
Joint List members present their party slate to the Central Elections Committee in the Knesset, January 15, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 20, 2022, 5:02 am
Report: PA working to convince Joint List to rejoin with Ra’am ahead of election
Israeli TV network quotes unnamed Palestinian official who confirms that intelligence chief met Arab MKs but insists PA not seeking to interfere in November election
By ToI Staff
Joint List leader Ayman Odeh (Hadash) at a Knesset faction meeting on March 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 13, 2022, 8:24 pm
Ayman Odeh reelected as Hadash party leader ahead of November election
MKs Aida Touma-Sliman and Ofer Cassif take 2nd and 3rd places; Joint List alliance has yet to divvy up spots on united roster
By ToI Staff
Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas, left, holds a press conference at the Knesset, October 25, 2021; Opposition head and Likud chief Benjamin Netanyahu, right, leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, October 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 10, 2022, 4:26 pm
Top pollster: Ra’am consistently bleeding support, falling below Knesset threshold
Yousef Maqladeh, who polls Arab Israelis for Ra’am and Joint List, says Ramadan tensions wounded party badly; 28% in community say Netanyahu best politician to be PM
By Aaron Boxerman
Joint List party chairman MK Ayman Odeh attends an Internal Security Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on December 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 20, 2022, 9:22 pm
Arab Israeli MKs skip Zelensky’s Knesset speech: ‘NATO imposed this war’
Only Ra’am’s Walid Taha attends Ukrainian president’s address to the Knesset; no Joint List MKs present, with some refusing to condemn Russian invasion
By Aaron Boxerman
Left to right: Members of the Joint List party MKs Osama Saadi, Ayman Odeh, Ahmad Tibi and Mansour Abbas arrive for a consultation with President Reuven Rivlin on who he should task with trying to form a new government, in Jerusalem on September 22, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
July 18, 2021, 11:33 am
With much of Joint List set to oppose budget, Ra’am calls party untrustworthy
Hadash leader Odeh says Liberman’s budget ‘harms the weak’; Abbas says he’d be happy for rival Arab-majority alliance to join coalition, but it’s ‘impossible to rely on their word’
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Joint List MKs (from L) , Aida Touma-Suleiman, Ayman Odeh, Ahmad Tibi, Sami Abou Shahadeh, and Ofer Cassif visit the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on May 10, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 2, 2021, 12:39 am
Most Joint List MKs to vote against unity government that would oust Netanyahu
Hadash joins Balad in coming out against Lapid-Bennett lead coalition, as 2 MKs in Ahmad Tibi’s Ta’al remain undeclared
By ToI Staff
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