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Former Hadash MK Yousef Jabareen is elected to lead the Arab-majority party in internal primaries, May 16, 2026. (Hadash)
May 16, 2026, 8:23 pm
Former MK Yousef Jabareen elected leader of Arab-majority party Hadash
Leadership shakeup comes as two MKs step down; Jabareen pushes to revive Joint List; sole woman wins fifth slot
By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff
Candidates running in the upcoming Hadash party primaries, May 14, 2026. (Hadash)
May 14, 2026, 8:17 pm
Arab party Hadash to pick new leaders, hopes to energize efforts for Joint List revival
Former MK Yousef Jabareen expected to win race to replace Ayman Odeh as party head in internal Saturday vote, with faction shifting focus toward crime-plagued Triangle region and eyeing foray into Negev
By Ariela Karmel
A police officer confiscating a Palestinian flag from the Hadash youth center in Umm al-Fahm on May 1, 2026. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 2, 2026, 1:23 pm
Police raid Arab-majority party offices and confiscate Palestinian flag
MK Ofer Cassif says the event has ‘a significant chilling effect on freedom of expression and association’ in Israel; unclear if the officers had a search warrant
By ToI Staff
Joint Arab List MK Aida Touma-Sliman in the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 8, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
October 18, 2025, 10:03 am
As Arab-led bloc mulls reunion, Hadash MK Touma-Sliman sees chance for ‘real change’
Buoyed by public turning against war and global support for Palestinians, lawmaker hopeful that with enough support, Arab MKs can force Israel to look beyond recovering hostages and replacing Netanyahu
By Ariela Karmel
Hadash-Ta'al chair Ayman Odeh (left) and MK Ahmad Tibi lead a faction meeting at the Knesset, on July 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 11, 2025, 10:07 am
Arab parties meeting to discuss reuniting into Joint List bloc
Leadership dispute looms as Hadash party pushes Yousef Jabarin as head of revived merged slate, with Ra’am and Ta’al signaling willingness to compromise to keep alliance intact
By Ariela Karmel
Leaders of Arab parties meeting at a press conference in Jaffa including former Hadash MK Yousef Jabareen (left), Hadash-Ta'al MK Ahmad Tibi (2nd from left), Ra'am MK Mansour Abbas (2nd from right) and Balad leader Sami Abu Shehadeh (right), July 27, 2025. (Screen capture: Yanal Jabarin via X)
July 28, 2025, 5:22 pm
Arab parties consider reviving joint ticket as Arab public backs joining government
Poll finds broad support for Arab participation in a future coalition, as Hadash pushes to revive Joint List amid mounting discontent over Gaza war
By Ariela Karmel and Sam Sokol
Screen grabs from videos posted to social media show right-wing demonstrators shouting profanities at MK Ayman Odeh, and surrounding his vehicle, in Ness Ziona, July 19, 2025. (X; used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 20, 2025, 5:39 pm
Judge criticizes police for not arresting actual perpetrators of assault on MK Odeh
Court frees all 3 apprehended suspects, says cops failed to prove they committed crimes, notes videos show dozens of rioters involved; separate racist incident at Jerusalem cinema
By Jeremy Sharon, Leon Kraiem, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Screen grabs from videos posted to social media show right-wing demonstrators shouting profanities at MK Ayman Odeh, and surrounding his vehicle, in Ness Ziona, July 19, 2025. (X; used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 19, 2025, 8:25 pm
Right-wing protesters assault MK Ayman Odeh, attack his car, chant ‘Death to Arabs’
Three arrested for damaging vehicle; demonstrators curse the Hadash party leader, who vows he ‘won’t let the fascists win’ days after motion to expel him from the Knesset fails
By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol
MK Ayman Odeh chairs the Hadash–Ta'al party's weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, June 10, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 24, 2025, 11:43 am
Ahead of the 2026 elections, Ayman Odeh is pushing to reunite Israel’s Arab parties
‘There is no doubt the majority of the Arab population wants one and only one joint slate,’ says Hadash party chair, calling it crucial for defeating the ‘fascist messianic right’
By Sam Sokol
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
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