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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 593

Heba Yazbak

Heba Yazbak at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem for a hearing on whether to disqualify the Ra'am-Balad party from running in the general elections, March 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)
July 5, 2021, 8:22 pm
Police probe former Joint List lawmaker for alleged incitement
Heba Yazbak questioned over Facebook posts from before time in Knesset, including one that indicated solidarity with Palestinian terrorist; ex-MK says probe politically motivated
By ToI Staff
Then Balad MK Heba Yazbak speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, February 23, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 5, 2021, 9:52 am
Police to probe Arab former lawmaker for alleged incitement
Heba Yazbak says she was summoned for questioning but not told what investigation is about; ex-Balad MK previously praised terrorist who killed Israelis
By ToI Staff
Muhammad Abdelrazek Ades, who was killed March 9, 2021, in a shooting in Jaljulia. (Courtesy)
March 9, 2021, 11:29 pm
Teen killed, boy seriously injured in Jaljulia shooting
After 23rd violent death in Arab community this year, Joint List MK says ‘blood on the criminals, but blame on the government’; separate shooting in Sakhnin leaves man wounded
By ToI Staff
Mansour Abbas of the Ra'am party holds a press conference after a meeting with President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 16, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
December 3, 2020, 5:44 pm
Renegade Arab MK to ToI on skipping election vote: It’ll only elevate the right
MK Mansour Abbas, recently seen as cozying up to the PM, insists he doesn’t support him, but says Netanyahu is the inescapable address for the Arab community’s needs
By Aaron Boxerman
Joint List chairman Ayman Odeh (Hadash) addresses the Knesset during a vote dissolving Israel's government on December 2, 2020 (Credit: Knesset spokesperson)
December 2, 2020, 9:39 pm
Ra’am’s refusal to back Knesset break-up widens rift in mainly Arab Joint List
Balad MK calls decision by Ra’am faction leader Mansour Abbas to skip out on vote and break ranks with rest of alliance ‘a blow to the platform of the Joint List’
By Aaron Boxerman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, November 19, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 10, 2020, 1:31 am
Accusations fly as MKs debate plan to combat violence in Arab Israeli towns
Knesset discussion erupts into uproar over acting police commissioner’s remark that ‘culture’ is responsible for some of the violence
By Aaron Boxerman
MK Bezalel Smotrich in Jerusalem, on November 11, 2019. (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)
June 11, 2020, 11:52 pm
Far-right MK: Bedouin birthrate like a ‘bomb’ that must be defused
Bezalel Smotrich claims Bedouin population in Negev doubling every 12 years, calls to ‘Westernize’ it; Arab MK calls him a racist
By ToI Staff
Iman Khatib-Yassin (center), an Arab Israeli newly elected to the Knesset, speaks to supporters in the northern town of Kafr Kanna on March 4, 2020 (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
March 13, 2020, 10:43 am
Newly strengthened in Knesset, Arab women seek to expand their voice
Latest election doubled female lawmakers in Joint List; now they speak of plans to work for all of society, with one hijab wearing MK saying: ‘Do not make the veil a barrier’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Blue and White chair Benny Gantz (C) meeting with leaders of the Joint List alliance, Ayman Odeh (L) and Ahmed Tibi, October 31, 2019. (Ofek Avshalom)
March 9, 2020, 9:53 pm
Joint List rebukes Gantz for calling only 3 of 4 of its sub-faction leaders
Blue and White head tells some Joint List MKs he is committed to forming a government for Jews and Arabs, but does not include Balad lawmaker Mtanes Shihadeh in calls
By Adam Rasgon
Yair Lapid (left) and Benny Gantz speak to supporters in Tel Aviv, on February 20, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 25, 2020, 6:19 am
Lapid: It’s either ‘Bibi and his liars’ or Gantz, who ‘everyone knows is honest’
Dismissing any equation between Netanyahu’s imminent graft trial and a new probe into a firm Gantz chaired, Blue and White No. 2 says he truly believes his party can win next week
By David Horovitz
Then-Supreme Court justice Anat Baron on March 8, 2017 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
February 10, 2020, 10:53 am
Judge who backed Yazbak’s candidacy lost a son in 2003 terror attack
‘The temptation to rule according to one’s feelings is powerful’ but must not win out, writes Justice Baron in vote to let Joint List MK run despite her alleged support for terror
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
MK Heba Yazbak of the Ra'am-Balad party holds a press conference in Jerusalem on April 16, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
February 9, 2020, 10:00 pm
Overturning Knesset decision, court narrowly okays candidacy of Joint List MK
High Court rules 5-4 that while posts shared by Heba Yazbak appearing to praise terrorists were inappropriate, there is not a critical mass of evidence to justify disqualification
By Jacob Magid
Leader of the Joint List Ayman Odeh (L) with fellow faction member Ahmad Tibi during the Central Elections Committee discussion of requests to disqualify Joint List party candidate Heba Yazbak from running in the upcoming Knesset Elections on January 29, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 29, 2020, 8:26 pm
Elections committee votes to let majority-Arab Joint List run in March
Decision comes hours after panel voted to nix candidacy of one of same party’s MKs, Heba Yazbak, for allegedly condoning terrorism
By Jacob Magid and Raoul Wootliff
Joint List MK Heba Yazbak during the Central Elections Committee discussion on a petition to disqualify her from running in the March 2020 Knesset Elections, January 29, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 29, 2020, 12:32 pm
Elections committee votes to bar Arab MK Yazbak; Supreme Court to have final say
Panel made up of party representatives accepts petition to disqualify Joint List lawmaker, accused of condoning violence against IDF troops, from running in March
By Raoul Wootliff
Heba Yazbak of the Ra'am-Balad party speaks in the Knesset, May 13, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
January 27, 2020, 10:00 pm
AG says he is against disqualifying Arab MK Yazbak, prompting right-wing outrage
Yamina party calls decision a ‘tailwind for terror support,’ as Mandelblit rules in favor of Joint List lawmaker accused of condoning violence against IDF troops
By Raoul Wootliff
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