Ra'am

Netanyahu’s coalition moves to ban Ra'am from future elections over terror links - report

The initiative stems from a legal battle to designate the Southern Faction of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Ra’am’s parent movement, as a terrorist organization.

|ByASHER SMITH
Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas.
HEAD OF the Democrats party, Yair Golan, speaks at the anual Berl Katznelson Center (BKC) conference, on May 07, 2026.

Golan: Eisenkot should join Democrats or Bennett-Lapid, opposition should partner with Ra'am

“I look at the political map. The alliance already underway between Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid will be judged by one question only: Does it enlarge the bloc for change?” Golan said.

|ByKESHET NEEV
Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference ahead of the vote on the state budget at the Knesset.

Smotrich's October 7 comments should disgust every single one of us - editorial

Weaponizing the October 7 massacre is disgraceful and a betrayal of the very people whose memory should command something far greater than politics.

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 12, 2026.

Hamas allegedly asked Mansour Abbas to ensure Netanyahu's re-election in 2021 - report

The official reportedly believed that "Netanyahu was looking for continued calm and quiet understandings, while a new government would be dragged into an operation in the Gaza Strip."

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

MK Mansour Abbas: Israel is not an apartheid state

He was responding in a virtual talk at an American pro-Israel think tank, in light of Amnesty International's report last month that made such a claim.

FEBRUARY 11, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
MK Mansour Abbas during a discussion on the Electricity Law connecting to Arab and Bedouin towns, during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 5, 2022.

Radicalization of Arab-Israelis is a threat to Israel - opinion

Two new studies warn of radicalization among Arab-Israelis and urge robust government action.

FEBRUARY 10, 2022ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett chats with Ra’am leader Mansour Abbas in the Knesset in June.

Arab party Ra'am threatens Bennett's coalition over citizenship bill

There are three versions of the bill, which will all be brought to a vote.

FEBRUARY 6, 2022ByGIL HOFFMAN
Ra'am MK Waleed Taha at the Knesset plenum, January 4, 2022

How tree plantings almost toppled a coalition

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: The Likud managed to sow the seeds of rebellion in Bennett’s government.

JANUARY 14, 2022ByGIL HOFFMAN
POLICE OFFICERS detain a Bedouin man who was protesting tree planting by KKL-JNF outside the village of al-Atrash in the Negev, Wednesday.

2,000 Bedouin uproot disputed trees as Negev protests intensify

The protests continued on Thursday as Ra'am continues threatening the future of Naftali Bennett's government.

JANUARY 13, 2022ByGIL HOFFMAN, ELIAV BREUER
Israeli security forces advance during a protest by Bedouins against forestation at the Negev desert village of Sawe al-Atrash, southern Israel January 12, 2022.

Negev tree planting: After third day, violent encounters, tractors to pull out

Ra'am has threatened the coalition over the issue • Ze'ev Elkin called Mansour Abbas's use of political pressure "legitimate," but said they don't need Ra'am's permission.

JANUARY 12, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
KKL-JNF plants trees near the Gaza border

Ra’am threatens coalition crisis over Negev tree planting

Ra’am and Joint List MKs have been protesting tree planting in the Negev, claiming the saplings were planted on the property of the al-Atrash family, not state land.

JANUARY 11, 2022ByGIL HOFFMAN
MK Mansour Abbas (Ra'am), October 4, 2021.

Arab leaders voice their protest as KKL-JNF plants trees in Negev

Disputed land claimed to belong to a Bedouin family in the Negev has been in the spotlight due to KKL-JNF's act to plant trees on it.

JANUARY 10, 2022ByELIAV BREUER, SARAH BEN-NUN
Ra'am head Mansour Abbas at the Knesset plenum, December 15, 2021.

Electricity Law brings Israel's institutions to the brink of collapse - opinion

The legislative process was one of the most brutal, nondemocratic, politicized processes in Knesset history and the consequences for the State of Israel will be irrevocable.

JANUARY 9, 2022ByNAOMI LINDER KAHN
PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett gets involved in the sharp debate over the Electricity Law on Wednesday in the Knesset plenum.

Arab MKs have every right to speak Arabic during Knesset debates - editorial

What the opposition MKs forgot is that as a language with a special status in Israel, Arabic is one of two languages allowed to be spoken in the Knesset plenum.

JANUARY 8, 2022ByJPOST EDITORIAL
MK Walid Taha speaks during a discussion on the Electricity Law connecting to Arab and Bedouin towns, during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 5, 2022.