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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

Osama Saadi

Joint List MK Osama Saadi at a Knesse committee meeting on July 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 3, 2022, 3:17 pm
Joint List MK says he won’t run in upcoming Knesset elections
Osama Saadi announces departure as predominantly Arab party struggles in the polls, faces potential split; Ta’al subfaction members urge him to reconsider
By ToI Staff
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
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a discussion and a vote on the minimum wage at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 8, 2022, 9:27 pm
In another blow to coalition, Knesset advances opposition bills to hike minimum wage
Government’s Ra’am party breaks ranks to vote in favor of preliminary legislation from opposition’s Joint List, as imperiled coalition appears headed for a collapse
By ToI Staff
A rendering of the Jericho Gate neighborhood in Jericho, West Bank. (Courtesy: SP Architects)
February 5, 2022, 9:40 am
Lured by cheap prices and luxury digs, Arab Israelis are snapping up West Bank homes
From Nablus to Jericho to Rawabi, where units cost a fraction of what they would in Israel, Arabs are leaping at the chance for investment properties, or a dream vacation home
By Tal Schneider
Joint List MK Osama Saadi at a Knesse committee meeting on July 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 21, 2021, 9:27 am
Ethics Committee blocked from convening, as Joint List MK refuses to join
Osama Saadi, tapped as an alternate member of panel, says he won’t be ‘a tool in political games between the coalition and opposition’
By ToI Staff
Knesset Speaker MK Mickey Levy attends a meeting in parliament, Jerusalem, November 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 18, 2021, 3:11 pm
Knesset speaker sets up Ethics Committee, orders opposition MKs to join
Mickey Levy tells 2 lawmakers of Likud and Shas parties to represent the opposition in the 4-member panel, even though many in the opposition are boycotting all committees
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Arab-Israeli parliament member Osama Saadi reacts during a debate at the Interior Affairs committee meeting, on November 10, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 2, 2021, 10:46 pm
Joint List MK decries ‘cursed’ Balfour Declaration on anniversary
Osama Saadi says key milestone in establishment of the Jewish State is not a cause for celebration: ‘The Jewish people has its own home and the Palestinian people do not’
By ToI Staff
Yamina MK Amichai Chikli at the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 31, 2021, 9:41 am
Rebel Yamina MK says won’t vote for budget, as both sides try to woo abstentions
Chikli claims party hasn’t sought his backing; opposition reportedly using bill for new hospital to convince Ra’am MK not to vote for budget; coalition wants Joint List to abstain
By ToI Staff
Deputy Public Security Minister Yoav Segalovitz meets with parliamentarians on October 20, 2021, to discuss plans to end the crime wave in Arab communities (Knesset Spokesperson/ Noam Moscovitz)
October 20, 2021, 12:52 pm
Deputy police minister announces joint task force to fight Arab crime
Amid surging body count, PM Bennett orders two Border Police battalions to patrol southern Israel; Arab MKs skeptical: ‘We don’t want plans on paper’
By Aaron Boxerman
Suha Jarrar (L) greets her mother Khalida Jarrar of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) after she was released from 20 months of detention in the West Bank city of Ramallah on February 28, 2019 (STR/Flash90)
July 13, 2021, 8:13 am
Israel bars jailed senior PFLP member from attending her daughter’s funeral
Khalida Jarrar, in prison for membership in a terror group, is told she won’t be let out for burial of 31-year-old daughter who died of heart attack; Joint List MK: ‘A disgrace’
By Aaron Boxerman
Knesset Members Osama Saadi (R) and Ahmad Tibi (L) attend a Knesset committee meeting on September 9, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 13, 2021, 12:19 am
2 Joint List MKs may abstain to ensure majority for new government — report
Ta’al faction said to be waiting until last minute to see whether or not it should vote against the incoming coalition
By ToI Staff
Maher al-Akhras, a 49-year-old security prisoner, while on hunger strike in Kaplan hospital in Rehovot, October 8, 2020 (Aaron Boxerman/Times of Israel)
November 3, 2020, 2:22 pm
Palestinian security prisoner’s hunger strike hits 100 days
Shin Bet detained Maher al-Akhras without charges on suspicion of membership in Islamic Jihad in late July; he denies being part of terror group
By Aaron Boxerman
Illustrative: Joint List party member Ahmad Tibi speaks during a Knesset plenary session on February 17, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 7, 2020, 4:22 am
NIS 90 billion virus aid package scrapes through Knesset with help of Joint List
Bill to amend Basic Law on the State Economy passes 62-0, relying on 3 votes from majority Arab party; Yamina absent, along with quarantined Netanyahu and Litzman
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, on November 10, 2019. (Photo by Abir SULTAN / POOL / AFP)
November 10, 2019, 3:55 pm
After ultimatum, Netanyahu claims Liberman ‘fully coordinated’ with Arabs, Gantz
In cabinet meeting, PM accuses Yisrael Beytenu of plotting minority government with Joint List, says Liberman’s demands are in essence only of Likud, not Blue and White
By Raoul Wootliff
View of a plenum session of the Knesset, July 2, 2018. (Flash90)
July 30, 2018, 4:46 pm
27 gone out of 120: Knesset sees record number of dropouts
Almost a quarter of lawmakers have given up their seats since being elected in 2015, and the number is likely to rise
By ToI Staff
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