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Sami Abou Shahadeh

Left to right: Hadash chairman Yousef Jabareen, Balad chair Sami Abou Shahadeh and Ta'al head Ahmad Tibi. (Flash90)
August 19, 2026, 8:37 pm
Arab-majority Hadash, Ta’al and Balad parties agree on joint run after striking deal
Combined election slate would see Hadash’s Yousef Jabareen at the helm, followed by Ta’al’s Ahmad Tibi and then Balad’s Sami Abou Shahadeh, after Tibi demanded better conditions
By ToI Staff
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
Hadash-Ta'al party leaders at their headquarters in the northern town of Shefaram, as the results of the Israeli general elections are announced, November 1, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
November 2, 2022, 3:45 am
2 of 3 Arab factions predicted to enter Knesset, vow to oppose far-right ‘fascism’
Exit polls show Ra’am, Hadash-Ta’al crossing electoral threshold and Balad just below as some voice fear over Religious Zionism’s strong showing
By Jack Mukand
Likud party supporters celebrate at the party headquarters on election night, November 1, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
November 2, 2022, 1:00 am
Right-wing lawmakers celebrate exit polls as opposing bloc urges wait for results
Netanyahu calls surveys ‘a good start’ as Religious Zionism’s Smotrich hails ‘historic’ win, while Yesh Atid calls for patience and Ayelet Shaked concedes
By Amy Spiro
A man and his son vote during elections in Tel Aviv, November 1, 2022. (AP/ Oded Balilty)
November 1, 2022, 8:19 pm
Turnout high as parties project tight contest to drive final votes
Lapid says election hangs on a thread, Likud and allies claim leftist strongholds seeing long lines, and several parties warn they’re falling below threshold as voting nears end
By ToI Staff
Balad party head MK Sami Abu Shahadeh arrives to cast his vote at a voting station for the Israeli general elections, November 1, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
November 1, 2022, 4:42 pm
Casting ballot, long-shot Balad head Sami Abou Shahadeh predicts ‘election surprise’
With fate hinging on Arab turnout, leader of hardline anti-Zionist party confident he will return to Knesset as other Arab voters in Jaffa seek ‘change’ by sticking with Lapid
By Jack Mukand
A woman votes in Tel Aviv, Israel, Nov 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
November 1, 2022, 12:04 pm
Party leaders urge voters to polls as Israel holds fifth election in four years
Faction chiefs cast their ballots and encourage citizens to do the same before voting ends at 10 p.m.; Beit Shemesh polling station attacked by extremists
By ToI Staff
A man walks by an election campaign billboard showing Sami Abu Shehadeh, head of the nationalist Balad party, in the northern Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm, Friday, Oct. 21, 2022. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)
October 30, 2022, 3:06 pm
Damned if you vote, damned if you don’t: Despair a deciding factor in Arab turnout
Even generous forecasts cap neglected minority’s turnout at 50%, but Balad’s breakaway from Hadash-Ta’al offers those who refuse to cooperate with government a new political home
By Jacob Magid
Gunmen at the funeral of those killed in clashes sparked by an overnight Israeli raid against the Lion's Den terror group, in the West Bank city of Nablus on October 25, 2022. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)
October 25, 2022, 12:56 pm
Lapid on Nablus raid: ‘Anyone who hurts Israelis should know it will end badly’
5 Palestinian gunmen killed in raid, including Lion’s Den terror leader; 6th killed in clash near Ramallah; Gantz: ‘No sanctuary cities for terrorists’; general strike in Nablus
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Member of the Likud party Idit Silman at Kikar HaShabbat conference in the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem Hotel, September 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 6, 2022, 10:43 pm
Top court rejects appeal to bar Yamina rebel Idit Silman from Likud slate
Justices also hear appeal on disqualification of Amichai Chikli, as well as of the Balad party
By Jeremy Sharon
Balad supporters wave the Palestinian and the party flag at campaign launch in Baqa al-Gharbiya on September 24, 2022. (Courtesy)
October 4, 2022, 2:18 pm
Balad party appeals its election disqualification to the High Court
Arab nationalist faction accuses Defense Minister Gantz and Prime Minister Lapid of ‘engineering’ ploy designed to shape political map
By ToI Staff
Balad party head Sami Abu Shehadeh speaks at an Central Elections Committee meeting against disqualifying Balad from running in the upcoming elections, September 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
September 30, 2022, 11:04 pm
Rebel Chikli, Arab Balad head to Supreme Court to battle election disqualifications
Would-be Likud candidate Chikli charges election panel head could falsify election results; Balad chief says his faction will run until the end after reportedly mulling quitting
By ToI Staff
Balad party head Sami Abu Shehadeh speaks at an Central Elections Committee meeting against disqualifying Balad from running in the upcoming elections, September 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
September 30, 2022, 1:19 pm
Balad to meet to consider boycotting elections after being disqualified
Party has been disqualified by past elections panels and has so far won every appeal to Supreme Court; Meretz petitions court over failure to bar Idit Silman from Likud run
By Tobias Siegal and Carrie Keller-Lynn
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu criticizes Prime Minister Yair Lapid for endorsing the two-state solution at the UN General Assembly, in a video statement released on September 22, 2022. (Twitter screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 22, 2022, 9:57 pm
Netanyahu leads right-wing criticism of Lapid’s UN speech: He’s ‘endangering’ Israel
Opposition chief claims PM will give Palestinians ‘a terrorist state in the heart of the country’; premier’s left-wing partners, US hail his backing of two-state solution
By Carrie Keller-Lynn and Jacob Magid
Members of the Balad party register their list for the upcoming elections at the Knesset on September 15, 2022. Party leader Sami Abou Shahadeh is at second from right. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 18, 2022, 3:24 pm
Yisrael Beytenu petitions to disqualify Balad party chief from running in election
Sami Abou Shehadeh’s party dismisses ‘attempt to silence’ him; Netanyahu-led bloc seen as unlikely to back move, preferring Balad have a chance to fall below electoral threshold
By ToI Staff
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