Weekend Summit for the Return of Joint List

Tensions between Jewish-Arab Hadash and Islamist Ra’am party during a weekend summit held in Nazareth — the first such meeting since the factions signed an agreement in January to work toward running together in a renewed Joint List.  According to Zo Haderekh, Ra’am has dragged its feet on presenting a unity framework as Hadash and…

Polls: Joint List Wins 14-15 Seats

Polls show the Joint List gaining strength and win 14 to 15 seats in the next Knesset.  Wednesday’s Channel 13 survey sees far-right PM Netanyahu’s Likud party gaining one seat and the Jont List win 15. As with previous surveys, without the Joint List parties’ support, both blocs fall short of securing the required 61-seat…

Return of Joint List Takes Seats from Zionist Opposition

Likud strengthened by two seats, bringing the governing coalition to 50, following the Hadash and three Arab parties’ leader’s announcement of a joint run in the next elections and the return of the remains of the Gaza hostage, according to a Maariv poll published Friday, January 30. The survey indicated that the Zionist opposition would hold 57…

Negotiations to Reestablish the Joint List

Sep 1 Joint List Hadash and three Arab parties Ra’am, Ta’al, and Balad are negotiating to reestablish the Joint List bloc ahead for the next elections. “The atmosphere during the meeting on Sunday was really good,” MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Hadash-Ta’al) told The Jerusalem Post. During the meeting, Hadash-Ta’al presented a “road map toward the Joint List”…

Hadash-Ta’al Won 5-Seat; MK Touma-Sliman: “The Political Reality Should Frighten Everyone”

 With the publication of the final election results Thursday night, the scale of the anti-Netanyahu political parties’ defeat was thrown into sharp relief, as the final vote tallies showed just 30,293 votes separating the opposing political camps. Although this gap represents less than one Knesset seat based on the total number of valid votes cast in…