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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


1 killed, police cars set on fire in riots in Arab-Israeli city

Clashes turned deadly in Kafr Kasim after a citizen resisted arrest.

Cars set on fire in a riot in Kafr Kasim.

Joint List MK Zoabi praises Swiss war crimes probe of Livni

Livni decided not to participate at an event in Brussels in January after authorities there said she could be detained.

MK Haneen Zoabi at the High Court of Justice

Gal-On, Odeh, PA official support dividing Jerusalem

“There will be no peace without the division of Jerusalem," Meretz chairwoman Zehava Gal-On said.

Zehava Gal-On, Ayman Odeh and Mahmud Habash

Knesset to hold discussion on Ghattas’s impeachment

The impeachment process began after Environmental Protection Minister Ze’ev Elkin gathered 71 lawmakers to support the move.

Balad MK Basel Ghattas

Ayelet Shaked: Arab MKs to blame for deaths

“Along with left-wing NGOs, Odeh’s incitement terrorism is leading to the never-ending unrest of the Negev Beduin residents,” she wrote on Facebook.

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked

Arab-Israeli MK Ghattas suspended from Knesset

“The issue from the beginning is part of the political persecution in the framework of political oppression against the Arab citizens."

Balad MK Basel Ghattas

Analysis: Ghattas’s charges of ‘political persecution’ ring hollow among Arabs

‘It was a very dangerous and harmful mistake and you need to take responsibility.’

Members of the Joint Arab List gesture during a news conference in Nazareth, January 23

MK Ghattas arrested hours after being stripped of immunity

Joint List MK was caught on camera giving documents and cell phones to terrorists in prison.

MK Basel Ghattas at Temple Mount

Arab MK Ghattas stripped of immunity in terrorist phone smuggling affair

Police found 12 cellphones and 16 SIM cards on two Palestinian security prisoners in the Ketziot Prison in the Negev after Ghattas had visited them.

MK Bassel Ghattas

Knesset to vote today on stripping MK Ghattas of immunity

House Committee approves unprecedented request from attorney-general ahead of an indictment

MK Bassel Ghattas