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What I learned speaking to Arabs voting in Israel's election - reporter's notebook

People were passionate about politics. Around 4,300 people voted in Abu Ghosh, which is 78 percent of the population. In Gilo, around 15,000 people voted, or 65-70 percent.

Arab Israelis and Israeli left-wing activist students take part in a rally marking the Nakba anniversary at Tel Aviv University, May 13, 2026.
Prime Minister and Likud party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu at the Likud party’s election headquarters in Jerusalem, October 28, 2026

Israel election results signal political deadlock, raising three possible post-election scenarios

(L-R): Yashar head Gadi Eisenkot; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Eisenkot leads Netanyahu but deadlock looms, election polls show two days before Israelis vote

ILLUSTRATIVE: View of the Arab-Israeli town of Bayada, northern Israel. February 13, 2025.

Most young Arab Israelis are willing to vote for non-Arab parties, demand solution for crime - poll


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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Tibi puts price tag on Gantz blocking majority

Tibi said his demands include a development plan for the Arab sector that would cost 64 billion shekels over 10 years or 32 billion over five years.

IMPORTANT VOICES too. Election campaign banners depict Ahmad Tibi and Ayman Odeh, leaders of the Hadash-Ta’al joint list that ran in the April elections

Far right Otzma, Likud file appeal demanding Arab parties be disqualified

According to Otzma, its appeal included evidence that the four Arab parties comprising the Joint List support terrorism.

An advertisement for the Otzma Yehudit party featuring Michael Ben-Ari, Baruch Marzel, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Benzti Gopstein in Jerusalem, February 14, 2019

Ayman Odeh to Barak: Get off the public stage; you should be left in the past

"Nineteen years have passed since you were responsible for the killing of thirteen Arab citizens because they took to the streets," he said.

ARABS HAVE full representation in the Knesset, with MKs such as Ayman Odeh (Joint List).

Survey finds that as many as 74% of Arab Israelis could vote in September

Polls shows one-third of Arab citizens of Israel are still undecided about heading to the ballot box, but they could be persuaded.

An Israeli-Arab father casts a ballot together with his children, as Israelis vote in a parliamentary election, at a polling station in Umm al-Fahm, Israel April 9, 2019

AG: Joint List can run, Bayit Yehudi combines allowed

Mandelblit rejects attemps to disqualify Arab, far-right Jewish candidates and parties.

Avichai Mandelblit