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Joint List leader Ayman Odeh (Hadash) at a Knesset faction meeting on March 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 13, 2022, 8:24 pm
Ayman Odeh reelected as Hadash party leader ahead of November election
MKs Aida Touma-Sliman and Ofer Cassif take 2nd and 3rd places; Joint List alliance has yet to divvy up spots on united roster
By ToI Staff
Ra'am leader MK Mansour Abbas leads a discussion and a vote on a bill to dissolve the Knesset, June 29, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 6, 2022, 10:07 pm
Mansour Abbas holds onto Ra’am’s top spot in primary, fills out slate with loyalists
MK Walid Taha, Knesset faction director Waleed Alhawashla and MK Iman Khatib-Yasin clinch spots 2-4; remainder of roster to be determined at a later date
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Outgoing Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg attends a discussion regarding violence in Arab society on May 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 27, 2022, 5:39 am
Coalition members tear into coming controversial Flag March, others defend it
Meretz’s Zandberg says ‘defiant’ nationalist procession is ‘endangering whole Middle East,’ Yair Golan calls planned route ‘a wrong decision’; supporters say event legitimate
By ToI Staff
Ra'am leader MK Mansour Abbas delivers a statement to the press at the Knesset, May 11, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
May 13, 2022, 1:13 pm
Returning to coalition at pinnacle of tension, Ra’am aims to solidify paradigm shift
Islamist party leader Mansour Abbas chose this particularly fraught week to support a flagging government, in a gamble that is at once practical and ideological
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Ra'am leader MK Mansour Abbas delivers a statement to the press at the Knesset, May 11, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
May 11, 2022, 2:49 pm
Likud pulls bill to dissolve Knesset after Ra’am gives coalition another chance
MK Walid Taha to lead negotiations with coalition leadership on fulfilling party’s outstanding demands; opposition’s bid for new elections scuttled for time being
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Walid Taha, Chairman of the Knesset Internal Affairs and Environment Committee, leads a committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on November 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 23, 2022, 10:19 pm
Report: Ra’am to boycott Knesset hearing on ousting Yamina rebel MK from party
Move said driven by Ra’am’s intention to prove seriousness of its freeze of membership in the coalition and parliament
By ToI Staff
Join List faction leader Ayman Odeh and constituent party leader Ahmad Tibi represent the Joint List during an election event in Nof HaGalil, February 20, 2021. (Roni Ofer/Flash90)
April 11, 2022, 1:57 pm
Odeh’s comments imperil prospective cooperation between coalition and Joint List
The teetering government made overtures to the Arab party for support, but then its leader berated Arab cops for ‘humiliating’ their people by serving the ‘occupation’
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Israeli police detain a man as Bedouins protest in the Negev Desert against a forestation project by the Jewish National Fund (JNF), on January 12, 2022. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
January 12, 2022, 1:15 pm
11 arrested in clashes as Negev tree-planting resumes, then pauses in climbdown
Working to ease coalition crisis, minister brokers temporary deal to halt forestation program pending negotiations
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett confronts and argues with opposition lawmakers in the Knesset during a vote on the electricity bill, Jerusalem, January 5, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 5, 2022, 12:54 pm
Power struggle: Bill to hook up illegal Arab homes to grid passes in stormy session
PM stands up to confront opposition MKs as they hurl insults over legislation: ‘A bunch of thugs. I’m not afraid of you’; Netanyahu: ‘A dark day for Zionism’
By ToI Staff
MK Mazen Ghnaim speaks during a committee meeting, in the Knesset, October 27, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
December 21, 2021, 12:36 pm
Ra’am MK warns coalition in peril as it pushes to connect Arab homes to power grid
The Islamist party is fuming over ongoing disagreements with interior minister Shaked on legislation that would allow illegally built Arab homes to be supplied with electricity
By ToI Staff
An unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev, April 1, 2014 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 6, 2021, 11:55 pm
Bill to connect illegally built homes to power grid clears first Knesset vote
Proposal backed by coalition’s Ra’am party approved 61-48; 130,000 Arab Israelis live in illegally built homes that cannot be connected to national grid
By ToI Staff
A view of houses in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Sawaneen in Israel's southern Negev Desert, on June 8, 2021. (Hazem Bader/AFP)
November 23, 2021, 7:21 pm
Proposal to hook illegally built homes to power grid advances after compromise
Interior Minister Shaked reaches understandings with Ra’am MK Taha to resolve spat that had held up legislation; opposition Joint List party said planning to back bill
By ToI Staff
Ra'am chief Mansour Abbas in the Knesset, on October 4, 2021; Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked in the Knesset, on October 18, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
October 23, 2021, 10:45 pm
TV: Ra’am resolves spat with Interior Minister Shaked ahead of budget vote
Senior member of the Islamist party tells Kan ‘the main obstacle’ has been settled, but other smaller issues remain; critical bills to be brought before November 14 deadline
By ToI Staff
Ra'am MK Walid Taha attends a Knesset Arrangements Committee meeting, on June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 19, 2021, 9:23 pm
Ra’am pulls plug on a Knesset panel’s meetings in power struggle with Shaked
Walid Taha rebels over interior minister delaying legislation meant to bring electricity to Bedouin homes in unrecognized hamlets, but party reportedly not ready to go mat yet
By ToI Staff
MK Walid Taha (Ra'am) attends an Arrangements Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 20, 2021, 3:33 am
Hamas pans Ra’am MK who signaled party may not bolt coalition if Gaza war erupts
After Walid Taha says no good would come from toppling the government, terror group says the ‘hesitant’ remarks ‘attest to a disconnection from the Palestinian Arab identity’
By ToI Staff
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