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Election panel disqualifies Arab party head over calling Oct. 7 'important historical event'
In an unusual move, Justice Noam Sohlberg backed the disqualification, while Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara said there was a basis to bar Sami Abu Shehadeh; he said he regretted his Oct. 8 article and denied supporting Hamas' armed struggle
Amir Ettinger, Shilo Freid
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09.23.26
Election panel weighs bid to bar Arab party leader who called Oct. 7 an 'important historic event'
Otzma Yehudit says Sami Abu Shehadeh’s Oct. 8 article amounted to support for armed struggle; the attorney general says the case meets the legal threshold for serious review, while Abu Shehadeh says he did not yet know the scale of the massacre
Amir Ettinger
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09.23.26
Eisenkot backs election ban for Arab party head who called Oct. 7 an ‘important historic event’
Yashar! says Sami Abu Shehadeh crossed the legal threshold by describing the Hamas attack as a ‘historic event’; Balad leader says he never supported the massacre, as Eisenkot also prepares to meet Avigdor Lieberman and challenges Smotrich’s AI campaign
Yuval Karni
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09.22.26
Arab parties unite, but women remain left out
Opinion: When Israel’s Arab parties merged their slates, they also merged their male hierarchies; the alliance solved the equation of how to divide seats among the parties, but it did nothing to fix gender inequality
Rawiya Handaklo
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08.30.26
Down to the wire: Knesset election slates take shape as deadline nears
With less than two weeks to file candidate lists, parties are still juggling reserved slots, mergers, new recruits and survival around the electoral threshold
Moran Azulay, Yuval Karni, Einav Halabi
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08.26.26
The Arab parties will run together in a 'technical joint list' in upcoming elections
Representatives of Hadash, Ta'al and Balad met and issued a joint call to Ra'am to establish a technical bloc to run together in the election while preserving each party’s political and public independence; 'step toward preventing the loss of Arab votes'
Einav Halabi
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05.25.26
Arab leaders explore Joint List reunion to 'block Netanyahu-Smotrich-Ben-Gvir government'
Arab party leaders from Balad, Ta’al, Hadash and Ra’am meeting to discuss reviving defunct bloc; with calls for unity growing, leaders emphasize need to bridge differences and strengthen Arab representation in Knesset
Einav Halabi
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08.11.25
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