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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

Jamal Zahalka

Former Sudanese President Omar al Bashir, center, confers with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, as Yemen's President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi looks on as they prepare for a photo session at the extraordinary Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit on Palestinian issues in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, March 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
October 23, 2020, 11:00 pm
Abbas slams Israel-Sudan deal: ‘No one can speak on behalf of Palestinians’
Hamas, Arab Israeli lawmaker also condemn normalization agreement, but Egypt’s Sissi welcomes ‘all efforts aimed at establishing regional peace and stability’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, arrives for a court hearing in Haifa on February 10, 2020. (Flash90)
August 16, 2020, 10:24 am
Islamist firebrand preacher Raed Salah begins prison term for inciting terror
Head of outlawed group convicted for speeches supporting gunmen who killed 2 cops at Temple Mount in 2017, sparking more violence
By ToI Staff
Head of the Joint List party Ayman Odeh reacts as the first results in the Knesset elections are announced, September 17, 2019. (Basel Awidat/FLASH90)
September 22, 2019, 10:42 am
Joint List to present list of demands to Gantz in return for backing him as PM
Blue and White party has made no commitments yet to predominantly Arab alliance, which makes its recommendation to President Rivlin at 6:30 p.m. Sunday
By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid
Head of the Joint List party Ayman Odeh reacts as the first results in the Knesset elections are announced, September 17, 2019. (Basel Awidat/FLASH90)
September 22, 2019, 12:57 am
Balad said opposed to endorsing Gantz amid bid to woo Joint List in secret talks
Blue and White reportedly offered to ease tough law on illegal building, but Arab alliance has wider demands; 10 out of 13 Joint List MKs said to favor recommending Gantz
By Jacob Magid
Joint (Arab) List leader Ayman Odeh (C) leads the party's weekly faction at the Knesset, October 31, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 29, 2019, 2:18 am
Nationalist Balad party announces it will run on Joint Arab List in elections
Decision marks official reconstitution of coalition of the four Arab-majority parties that split into two alliances before last national vote in April
By Adam Rasgon
MK Ahmad Tibi at his office at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 3, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 25, 2019, 8:25 pm
Third Arab-majority party backs proposal to resuscitate Joint List
Move by Ta’al means Balad is now the only Arab-majority party yet to accept offer to revive alliance, which fell apart before previous elections
By Adam Rasgon
Arab Joint list candidates (from L-R) MK Jamal Zahalka, Joint List leader Ayman Odeh, and MK Ahmad Tibi raise their hands at the party's headquarters in the city of Nazareth, March 17, 2015, as they react to exit polls. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
July 18, 2019, 6:04 pm
As election deadline looms, Arab parties struggle to merge lists
Committee charged with building joint slate says that Balad and Ta’al object to makeup of roster, holding up promised amalgamation
By Adam Rasgon
A hidden camera allegedly snuck into a polling station in an Arab town by a Likud observer during parliamentary elections on April 9, 2019. (Courtesy Hadash-Ta'al)
April 9, 2019, 10:46 pm
Arabs blast ‘racist’ Likud scheme to install cameras at polling stations
Many residents of Tamra and Shfaram say cameras did not frighten them; party attorney claims they were intended ‘to preserve the integrity of the vote’
By Adam Rasgon
MK Oren Hazan (Likud) in a self-produced election parody video of the Spaghetti Western 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' in which he shoots dead MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad). (Facebook screenshot)
March 20, 2019, 12:37 am
Arab MK wants Oren Hazan charged for parody video killing
Balad Party leader Jamal Zahalka seethes after MK Oren Hazan emerges from a bubble bath to shoot him dead in an election video
By ToI Staff
Joint (Arab) List MK Jamal Zahalka in the Knesset plenum on July 26, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 2, 2019, 6:25 pm
Balad chair: Party is ‘part of Palestinian national movement,’ PM a war criminal
Choosing Knesset slate, Arab faction hears greetings from ex-MK who fled amid Hezbollah spy allegations, former MK jailed for smuggling contraband to Palestinian security prisoners
By ToI Staff
MK Hanin Zoabi being escorted out of the plenary hall by security guards after interrupting an assembly session in the Knesset, June 17, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 6, 2019, 8:47 am
Lawmakers cheer resignation of firebrand Palestinian nationalist Zoabi
Arab MK who labeled IDF soldiers ‘murderers’ and called for end to the Jewish state won’t seek reelection after 10 years of courting controversy in the Knesset
By ToI Staff
Hanin Zoabi of the Joint List party in the Knesset on December 22, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 5, 2019, 5:39 pm
Arab MK Zoabi, who called for dissolution of Israel, says won’t seek reelection
After 10 stormy years in the Knesset, Joint List lawmaker acknowledges many hate her and her beliefs; forced to step down by her own party’s regulations
By ToI Staff
Joint (Arab) List MK Jamal Zahalka in the Knesset plenum on July 26, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 29, 2018, 10:31 pm
Arab MK, head of controversial Balad party, confirms he won’t seek reelection
Jamal Zahalka says he’ll retire from Knesset but remain Balad leader, after reports indicated he’d have to step down due to party rules
By ToI Staff
Former Balad party MKs Hanin Zoabi, right, and Jamal Zahalka, center, both of the Joint (Arab) List Faction, seen at the court hearing of fellow faction member MK Basel Ghattas at the Rehovot Magistrate's Court, January 5, 2017. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)
December 26, 2018, 9:04 pm
MKs cheer news firebrand Arab lawmaker retiring, but she says it’s a nasty rumor
After word spreads that Balad’s Hanin Zoabi and Jamal Zahalka will not run for reelection, Knesset Speaker Edelstein tweets that they contributed nothing to parliament
By ToI Staff
File: A Palestinian inspects the family house of Omar Al-Abed after it was demolished by Israeli authorities in the West Bank village of Kobar, near Ramallah, Aug. 16, 2017. Al-Abed stabbed to death three Jewish residents of a nearby settlement in July 2017. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
December 19, 2018, 2:42 pm
MKs give initial okay to evicting terror suspects’ families from their homes
Legislation that would forcibly relocate relatives of Palestinian attackers to other areas of West Bank passes preliminary reading, despite opposition from attorney general
By Raoul Wootliff
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