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Islamic Movement in Israel

MK Mansour Abbas, leader of the Ra'am party in the Knesset, on November 2, 2021. (Noam Moshkavitz/GPO)
June 24, 2022, 9:52 am
As elections loom, Arabs take stock of Ra’am’s year-long experiment in government
The Islamists were supposed to bring historic change to Arab Israeli life, but with slow movement on key policy issues, some voters may punish the party at the polls this fall
By Aaron Boxerman
Then-prime minister Naftali Bennett (left) speaks to Ra'am leader MK Mansour Abbas in the Knesset, on November 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 17, 2022, 6:36 pm
Ra’am freezes its coalition and Knesset membership amid Temple Mount tensions
Move coordinated with Bennett and will last two weeks, in bid to ease pressure on the Arab party while preventing permanent break with government
By ToI Staff
Palestinians flash victory signs beneath the dome of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 17, 2022, 2:04 pm
Senior Islamic Movement official urges Ra’am to quit coalition: ‘Do it for Al-Aqsa’
Sheikh Mohammad Salameh Hassan issues call in wake of Temple Mount clashes; TV report says party’s leader facing ‘heavy pressure’ to yank support for government
By ToI Staff
Sheikh Raed Salah, center, leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, arrives after his release from prison in Umm al-Fahm, December 13, 2021. (Flash90)
February 14, 2022, 1:56 pm
Interior minister bars firebrand Arab Israeli cleric from leaving country
Security officials reportedly advised Shaked to prevent Sheikh Raed Salah from traveling abroad amid concerns he will continue anti-Israel activity
By ToI Staff
Senior Islamic Movement officials gather in Kfar Qasim on Saturday, January 22, 2022 to elect a new leadership (courtesy: Islamic Movement)
January 25, 2022, 1:02 pm
Islamic Movement elects new spiritual leader seen as close to Ra’am’s MK Abbas
Safwat Freij, a resident of Kafr Qasim, widely seen as agreeing with pragmatic line espoused by coalition party
By ToI Staff
Sheikh Raed Salah (C-L), leader of the radical northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, celebrates with supporters following his release from a jail in the Arab city of Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel on December 13, 2021. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
December 13, 2021, 1:57 pm
Firebrand Arab Israeli Islamist released from prison, given hero’s welcome
Radical cleric Raed Salah, jailed for praising a deadly Palestinian terror attack, arrives in his hometown of Umm al-Fahm after nearly a year and a half behind bars
By Aaron Boxerman
A police officer confiscates an Israeli flag from a woman on the Temple Mount, September 27. 2021. (Video screenshot)
September 28, 2021, 11:20 am
After Israeli flags waved at Temple Mount, Islamic Movement warns of ‘red line’
Individuals briefly detained by police, escorted off holy site for displaying flag; Ra’am’s religious council says ‘status quo’ violations at flashpoint site can lead to conflict
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Muhammad Abu Nijm (courtesy)
September 2, 2021, 11:37 am
Siblings charged in January killing of Islamic Movement leader in Jaffa
Orhan Turk and his sister Sabria Koab allegedly ambushed Muhammad Abu Nijm and his nephew Omar Kurdi, assuming they were behind an attack on their family a night earlier
By Emanuel Fabian
Ra'am party chief Mansour Abbas meets with Lod Mayor Yair Revivo on Sunday, May 17, 2021 (screenshot: Kan)
May 17, 2021, 3:03 am
Ra’am leader Abbas faces backlash in his party for meeting right-wing Lod mayor
Islamic Movement secretary condemns ‘inappropriate, mistaken’ visit with Yair Revivo, a former Likud campaign chief who is disliked by many of Lod’s Arab residents
By Aaron Boxerman
Illustrative: Palestinians visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, on April 10, 2021. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
April 14, 2021, 4:51 pm
Israel said to muzzle Al-Aqsa muezzin as Memorial Day observed at Western Wall
Police allegedly disrupt call to prayer during memorial service, prompting spokesperson for PA president Abbas to warns of ‘open religious war’
By Aaron Boxerman
Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas gives a speech in the northern city of Nazareth, on April 1, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)
April 12, 2021, 4:17 pm
Courted by Likud, Ra’am adamant it will not back away from anti-Zionist charter
Islamist party official says Netanyahu and Abbas have not spoken since election, calls reported overture for fresh Abbas speech to soften up Religious Zionism ‘very strange’
By Tal Schneider and Aaron Boxerman
Ra'am party leader Mahmoud Abbas (David Cohen / Flash90); The charter of the Southern Islamic Movement
April 4, 2021, 6:39 pm
Ra’am’s guiding charter backs Palestinian right of return, calls Zionism racist
While Mansour Abbas is being wooed amid post-election deadlock, the Southern Islamic Movement, of which his party is the political wing, takes positions most Jewish Israelis abhor
By Aaron Boxerman
Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas, center, at a post-election event in Tamra on March 23, 2021. (Flash90)
March 24, 2021, 11:38 pm
Ra’am officials, far-right Ben Gvir rule out joining forces in a coalition
Kahanist soon-to-be MK calls Mansour Abbas a Hamas supporter; officials in Islamist party say he’s a ‘racist’ and partnering in same government ‘impossible’
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)
October 30, 2020, 7:13 am
When Israel’s Arabs began to demand their own ‘normalization’ deal
Mansour Abbas, who drew fire from his opposition colleagues for helping Likud overturn a Knesset vote last week, is a conservative Muslim urging ‘pragmatic’ Arab Israeli politics
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Arab Israeli Muslim demonstrators, mask-clad due to the coronavirus pandemic, hold up signs depicting French President Emmanuel Macron as a medieval crusading knight, during a protest against comments by Macron defending cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, near the French embassy in Tel Aviv, on October 27, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
October 27, 2020, 10:54 pm
Arab Israelis, Palestinians protest Macron’s defense of Muhammad cartoons
Scattered demonstrations on Monday night followed by protest in front of the French Embassy in Tel Aviv organized by Islamic Movement; protests also held in Ramallah
By Aaron Boxerman
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