Mansour Abbas

With less than a month until the Israeli elections, a move from the country's Central Elections Committee (CEC) to bar all Arab parties from running has ignited a debate about the relationship between security, national identity and democratic representation in Israel

Ethnic Arabs could decide Israel's coming election—and its democratic future

Yair Golan's Democrats Party submitted a request to the Central Elections Committee on Monday asking it to disqualify Otzma Yehudit from running in the upcoming elections

Former MK and retired police major general Yoav Segalovitz officially joined the Ra’am party's slate on Monday evening ahead of the upcoming elections

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked Ofer Winter during an event hosted by the Binyamin Regional Council on Tuesday evening and called on him to unite with Moshe Feiglin and Avi Maoz

Under this scenario, Winter’s party would cross the electoral threshold, while the Religious Zionist Party would fall below it, reducing the right-wing bloc to a low of 49 Knesset seats

The current coalition would fall by one seat to 51, while the bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot would remain unchanged at 57 seats

Abbas urged Israel and the U.S. to recognize Palestine as well

Yesh Atid MK announces his resignation after seven years in office amid reports that Mansour Abbas is seeking to recruit him to Ra'am

Yoav Segalovitz made a name for himself among Arab voters for fighting crime in the sector

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir defended his hardline stance on Gaza and vowed to accelerate settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank during a ceremony for a new neighbourhood in Hinanit

MK Iman Khatib Yassin of the United Arab List (Ra’am) rejected interpretations of party chairman Mansour Abbas’s remarks suggesting that, after the elections, Ra’am could receive offers to join either a left-wing or right-wing coalition

In the roundtable discussion with Haaretz correspondent Linda Dayan and host Allison Kaplan Sommer, Scheindlin discussed the new iterations of veteran parties on the center right and the left, vying for the voters who would like to see Netanyahu replaced — including those who previously voted for the prime minister and hold center-right views

Hadash, Balad and Ta'al are trying to revive the Joint List — but only as a technical bloc that may very well disband entirely after the elections

Smotrich’s comments come as he pushes to annex Lebanese territory and redraw Israel’s borders

The murderous terrorist organization Hamas is preparing for the election of new leadership, following the elimination of many of its top officials by Israel since October 7, 2023