Hadash

Joint List offers safety net to government seeking to oust Netanyahu, opening door for Eisenkot

Declaring the Joint List will use "every tool at our disposal," party leader Yousef Jabareen also laid out a series of demands as conditions for providing political support to a minority government.

Yousef Jabareen, chairman of the Joint List, attends the party’s campaign launch event ahead of the upcoming Israeli general elections, in Tel Aviv, October 5, 2026
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.

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

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


High Court disqualifies Ben-Ari; Rules Ben-Gvir, all Arab parties eligible

With its decision, the High Court essentially followed the recommendations of Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit, while overruling several decisions of the Central Elections Committee.

Dr. Michael Ben-Ari, Ph.D in archeology and Member of Knesset from 2009 - 2013 with the National Union party

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