Opinion Trust Israeli Arabs to Splinter Politically

I hereby announce with regret, mixed with relief, that we must adopt the words of Ecclesiastes: 'There is nothing new under the sun'

Arab Citizens of Israel Split Over Leadership of Party Meant to Represent Them

Forty-seven percent of Israel Arabs would prefer lawmaker Ahmad Tibi as chair of Join List political party over the current leader, Ayman Odeh

I Failed to Defend Israeli Democracy: Dov Khenin, Outgoing Communist Lawmaker, Admits Regrets

Dov Khenin, who started the year by quitting the Knesset, tells Haaretz how he’d be a greater agent of change outside parliament

Opinion Needed: A Joint Jewish-Arab List

All eyes are on Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid and Avi Gabby to rescue us from Israel's right with no contender committed to a peace plan. With Meretz and the Joint List on the downfall, it's time to form an effective Jewish-Arab list

Controversial Israeli Arab Lawmaker Haneen Zoabi Won't Run for Reelection

Zoabi (Joint List) says 'the time has come to change my place' after being subject to 'character assassination and ongoing incitement'

Israeli Lawmaker Dov Khenin Won't Run in General Election

Khenin first entered the Knesset in 2006 and has been involved in social and environmental issues

Opinion Arabs, Boycott the Election in Droves

The whole existence of Arab parties is to serve as a fig leaf that covers the nakedness of Israel’s so-called democracy. Potential voters must now respond to Netanyahu's battle cry from the last election

Editorial Mayor of Haifa, Don’t Give In

Interior MInister Arye Dery, a convicted criminal and serial suspect, wants to prevent the appointment of an Arab as the city's deputy mayor because of his political views

Joint List Faces Crisis of Voter Confidence Over Nation-state Law

The Arab parties believe that a major issue at the ballot box will be a crisis of confidence over the recently passed nation-state law, which their voters see as a tool to relegate Arab Israelis to second-class citizenship

Israeli Arab Knesset Member's Car Goes Up in Flames; Police Investigating Possibility of Arson

Lawmaker Abd al-Hakim Hajj Yahya woke up to find his car on fire but says he doesn't know who did it or why and that his family is not in dispute with anyone

Analysis In Israeli Arab Local Elections, New Faces Fail to Overtake Clan Loyalties

Women and young people played a greater role this time around, but tribe, family and money still rule

Lawmaker Makes History as Third Woman to Serve in Israeli Arab Party

Neven Abu Rahmoun sworn in, vows to step up protests against nation-state law. 'This is a breakthrough for Arab women in Israel,' MK Aida Touma-Sliman says

State Watchdog Fines Likud for Improper Party Spending for Second Time This Year

The Likud Party was fined $50,000 over an event organized by a private businessmen designed to advance the party's interests

Applications for Gun Permits Nearly Triple After Israel Eases Criteria

Requests for gun permits have increase by 183 percent in the past year after the public security minister changed permit criteria

Case Dropped Against Police Officers Suspected of Injuring Arab Lawmaker at Umm al-Hiran

Odeh claimed his injury came from a sponge-tipped bullet fired by police during the evacuation of the Bedouin encampment, while the police said Odeh was hit in the head by a rock thrown by the protestors at police

Israeli Officials Pressured EU Foreign Policy Chief to Nix Meeting With Arab-Israeli Lawmaker

Mogherini rejects Israeli entreaties to cancel Tuesday meeting with MKs, says she would meet with Joint List as she had with other Knesset parties ■ AG Mendelblit says nation-state law doesn't harm constitutional individual rights

Opinion Calling Arab MKs 'Traitors', Israel's Tourism Minister Betrays His Job

Minister Yariv Levin lent a hand to the exclusion of a quarter of the country’s population, which he is supposed to serve no less than he is supposed to serve the rest of the population

Israeli Lawmaker Calls to Investigate Arab Politicians for Taking Nation-state Law to UN

MK Forer claims Joint List members have violated the criminal code, which permits the imposition of a 10-year prison sentence

Nation-state Law Requires International Intervention, Israeli-Arab Lawmaker Tells UN Rep

'The law makes Israel an official apartheid state even within the Green Line, so it is not an internal Israeli matter,' MK Aida Touma-Sliman says

Tens of Thousands Gather in Tel Aviv for Nation-state Law Protest Led by Israeli Arabs

Protesters waving Palestinian and Israeli flags, chanting: 'Nation-state is apartheid' ■ Netanyahu: There is no better testimony for the necessity of the law'

Knesset Speaker Refuses to Sign Lawmaker's Resignation Letter in Arabic Because He Doesn't Speak It

Speaker Yuli Edelstein only signed the letter after getting it translated into Hebrew by Knesset staff

Israeli Arab Leader Suspended From Knesset Debates for Insulting Police Officers

Joint List Chairman Ayman Odeh was suspended from the Knesset for a week after he told police to 'go to hell' during a protest in May

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Opinion An Appointment to Serve Israeli Propaganda

A country in which all its Arab citizens are practically deemed suspects at the airport cannot take pride in the appointment of an Arab opposition leader

Editorial Ayman Odeh for Israeli Opposition Leader

Electing Odeh, an Arab, to the national post of leader of the opposition would also make an important symbolic contribution to Israeli democracy and advance equality between Arabs and Jews in this country.

Zionist Union in Uproar After Israeli Arab Party Member Backs Bill to Debar JNF

MK Bahloul backed a bill submitted by a Joint List member that would decertify JNF, the Jewish Agency, the WZO and Keren Hayesod

Imam Shot and Killed at Entrance to Mosque in Israel

Sheikh Abd al-Jani Sa’ade, 45, was shot as he was leaving prayers in Umm al-Fahm

Arab Lawmaker Suspended From Knesset for Week After Calling Israeli Soldiers 'Murderers'

Knesset Ethics Committee said Haneen Zoabi’s remark was unworthy of protection under freedom of expression

Report: Murder Rate Among Israeli non-Jews Far Outstrips Jewish Rate

Arab MK: ‘Figures show what we all knew – Arab society has become battleground, sense of security has vanished’