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New right-wing parties keep failing to unseat Likud - opinion

Many have tried unsuccessfully to challenge Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud from the Right, but a more realistic goal would be to take votes away from Naftali Bennett.

|ByORI WERTMAN
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening of the government meeting on January 4, 2026.
MK Ahmad Tibi reacts during a plenum session in the Knesset on November 21, 2022

Return of Arab Joint List takes seats from opposition while Likud strengthens - poll

The revived Joint List would win 13 seats, up from the 10 currently projected when the parties ran separately. The seats came at the expense of Yesh Atid, Naftali Bennett, and Gadi Eisenkot.

|ByMOSHE COHEN
Israeli President Isaac Herzog is seen meeting with Arab women at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 25, 2023.

On a tightrope: Israel’s Arab citizens and the war with Hamas - opinion

|ByARIK RUDNITZKY
Joint List final list, without Balad, as the parties broke apart, September 16, 2022.

The Joint Arab List split up alters the political landscape - analysis

Balad, which was one of three parties in the Joint Arab List broke away from the other two, making it less likely that they will pass the electoral threshold.

|ByHERB KEINON

Amid political gridlock, Israel’s Arab citizens see opportunities

According to several polls, the Joint List, a coalition of the four largest Arab-majority parties, will gain at least one more seat this time around, raising its representation to 14.

FEBRUARY 28, 2020ByMOHAMMAD AL-KASSIM/THE MEDIA LINE
Posters for the Joint List, Labor, Likud, and Blue and White parties outside of the polling station at Gabrieli Carmel School in Tel Aviv

Edelstein: Arab Joint List is illegitimate partner for gov’t coalition

But says no ethical problem for Netanyahu to be premier while under indictment, trial

FEBRUARY 17, 2020ByJEREMY SHARON
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein on the night the 22nd Knesset voted to disperse

Blue and White not expecting breakthrough in Liberman meeting

Liberman accuses Netanyahu of "begging Egypt to help us surrender."

NOVEMBER 13, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN, LAHAV HARKOV
Blue and White leader Benny Gantz meets with Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Liberman

Balad MKs rule out supporting a minority government

“My own village doesn’t have any building outlines since 1996,” said United Arab List MK Mansour Abbas in an interview with 103 FM radio on Tuesday.

OCTOBER 26, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Posters for the Joint List, Labor, Likud, and Blue and White parties outside of the polling station at Gabrieli Carmel School in Tel Aviv

Arab MKs on Netanyahu handing back mandate: Good riddance

Joint List leader slams Netanyahu: “The former magician ran out of tricks.”

OCTOBER 21, 2019ByHAGAY HACOHEN
MK Ayman Odeh places camera in PM Benjamin Netanyahu's face during debate on bill legislating filming in polling stations

Opportunity for change

Since 1992, when supporting late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, the Arab parties enacted a policy not to support any candidate from neither the Right nor the Left.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019ByJPOST EDITORIAL
MK Ayman Odeh, the leader of Hadash-Ta'al Party, and Benny gantz, head of the Blue and White Party.

Joint List endorses Gantz without Balad, giving Netanyahu majority

Blue and White decides to forego first shot to form government

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN
President Reuven Rivlin has Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz shake hands at memorial ceremony for former president Shimon Peres

Arab MKs: Netanyahu era is over

“We’re back to being the third largest party in the Knesset,” said Joint List head MK Ayman Odeh.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
AYMAN ODEH, leader of the Joint List.

Netanyahu predicts 15 seats for Joint List

The prime minister based his prediction on data presented in English at the meeting by his American pollster, John McLaughlin.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN
Can he win again? Prime Minister and Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu

Odeh reiterates Joint List will not be part of Gantz government

Says sees himself as future prime minister of the State of Israel

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019ByTZVI JOFFRE, LAHAV HARKOV
Joint List leader Ayman Odeh addresses the Knesset: Odeh has suggested, for the first time, that Israeli Arabs would be willing to join a government coalition