Hadash

Ra’am, Joint List fight bids to bar them from Knesset election

Ra’am, the Joint List, Balad and two candidates asked the Central Elections Committee to reject six petitions seeking to bar them from the 2026 Knesset election.

Ra’am party chairman Mansour Abbas, together with party member Yoav Segalovich, arrives to submit the party list to the Central Elections Committee, Jerusalem, September 7, 2026; illustrative.
Mansour Abbas is the head of Ra’am, one of four Arab parties vying for a place in the Knesset.

Likud says it will request to ban Arab parties from running in elections

 The Knesset building, home of Israel's legislature, in Jerusalem, on November 14, 2022 (Illustrative).

Hadash’s Jafar Farah withdraws Knesset bid amid sexual harassment allegations

Members of the Joint List arrive for a meeting with Israeli president Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on September 22, 2019.

Israel Election 2026: What do Yousef Jabareen’s Joint Arab List and Mansour Abbas’ Ra’am stand for?


Otzma on disqualification: Israel is not a democracy, it’s a judicial junta

Meretz boasts about getting Ben Ari out of the running.

An ad for the Otzma Yehudit party with Dr. Michael Ben-Ari, Baruch Marzel, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Bentzi Gopstein on a bus in Jerusalem, March, 2019

High Court hears petition to disqualify two Israeli-Arab parties

Kassif’s lawyer: Comments about attacks on IDF soldiers ‘philosophical,’ not supporting terror.

Ayman Odeh at a hearing for the disqualification of Hadash-Ta'al parties, March 13th, 2019

Attacking IDF soldiers 'philosophical' matter- Knesset candidate's lawyer

Lawyer for Ofer Kassif, Knesset candidate for Israel's communist party, says Kassif did not call for actual terror attacks against IDF soldiers.

Ofer Cassif

High Court to rule on extremist Jewish, Arab candidates for Knesset

Previously, the Central Elections Committee disqualified Dr. Ofer Kassif of the Arab Hadash party from running for Knesset.

Ofer Cassif

Liberman petitions to disqualify Hadash candidate

“Whoever claims that Israel shouldn’t be a Jewish State, who [incites against] IDF soldiers and says hurting them is not terrorism...cannot sit in the Knesset."

Ofer Cassif

Knesset approves breakup of Joint Arab List

MK Ahmad Tibi announced that he would leave the Joint List ahead of the April 9 election and that his party will run independently.

Israeli Arab lawmakers from the Joint Arab List (from L to R) Osama Saadi, Ahmed Tibi, Ayman Odeh, Masud Ganaim and Haneen Zoabi stand in front of the Dome of the Rock during a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City July 28, 2015.

State Attorney urges mediation on Hadassah cancer unit dispute

The state notes in its response that “today today it is clear to all that there is no right or wrong on one side, and that each side bears some responsibility for the present situation."

Hadassah Medical Center

Arab-Jewish Hadash party condemns killing of terrorist Kuntar as Israeli ‘thuggery’

The party accuses Israel of supporting ‘the forces of terrorism in Syria’

A picture depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an Islamic State fighter posted on the Arab-Jewish Hadash party’s Arabic Facebook page

Analysis: It’s the principle – not just the man

"The Arab community is overwhelmingly supportive of Allan because we are overwhelmingly supportive of the Palestinian cause," MK Yousef Jabareen (Hadash) told The Jerusalem Post.

Yousef Jabareen shouts during a protest

August 14: GRAPEVINE

One of Israel’s early entrepreneurs – with over 40 years of experience in founding,co-founding, developing more than 60 hi-tech companies – Yossi Vardi is the co-chairman of DLD Tel Aviv Innovation.

Shimon Peres and Yossi Vardi