Mansour Abbas

Israel elections: The Zionist case for forming a coalition with the Ra'am - opinion

If we want Israel to thrive as Jewish and democratic, we have to take the question of living together with our Arab citizens seriously.

Ra’am (United Arab List) leader Mansour Abbas pictured at the Knesset, May 11, 2026.
Yoav Segalovitz, former deputy public security minister attends Internal security committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on November 8, 2021

Israeli ex-security officials contact Abbas as potential Segalovitz move attracts Jewish candidates

Benjamin Netanyahu, Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett.

Eisenkot keeps top, gains support for PM role as uncertainty grows in security, politics - poll

Yousef Jabareen attends Hadash–Ta'al faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on July 6, 2026.

Joint List to soon launch without Ra'am, deal in final stages, Hadash-Ta'al leader tells 'Post'


68% of Israeli Arabs approve of Arab role in government - poll

Israel’s recently-formed 36th coalition government became the first in the country’s history to include a member from an Arab party.

MK Mansour Abbas during a discussion on the Electricity Law connecting to Arab and Bedouin towns, during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 5, 2022.

Avigdor Liberman and Mansour Abbas - strange bedfellows? - opinion

Amid the government drama, the lack of tension in the relationship between Finance Minister Liberman and MK Mansour Abbas has been astounding.

 WITHOUT ABBAS, Naftali Bennett would not have become prime minister.

Mansour Abbas tells Jewish leaders he wants to expand ties with US Jews

The Knesset speaker apologizes to Jewish leaders for damage to relations with Diaspora.

 Mansour Abbas February 22, 2022.

MK Mansour Abbas: Israel is not an apartheid state

He was responding in a virtual talk at an American pro-Israel think tank, in light of Amnesty International's report last month that made such a claim.

MK Mansour Abbas during a discussion on the Electricity Law connecting to Arab and Bedouin towns, during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 5, 2022.

Ra’am threatens coalition crisis over Negev tree planting

Ra’am and Joint List MKs have been protesting tree planting in the Negev, claiming the saplings were planted on the property of the al-Atrash family, not state land.

MK Mansour Abbas (Ra'am), October 4, 2021.

The changing face of Israeli politics - will things ever be the same?

Since the establishment of the new government, people in Israel have gotten to know a new name: Mansour Abbas, head of the United Arab List.

 MK MOSHE GAFNI stands in the Knesset plenum to voice an argument as MK Mansour Abbas watches alongside him.

Meet Mansour Abbas’ radical Jewish adviser - opinion

Dr. Yeela Raanan is a virulently anti-Zionist Jewish-Israeli academic.

MK Mansour Abbas (Ra'am) at the Knesset Plenum, January 3, 2022.

Israel’s political plague petered out in 2021

If 2021 will be remembered as the year the political plague Israel was enduring finally petered out, perhaps the same will happen to the coronavirus in 2022. 

 A moving truck stops at the prime minister's official Balfour Street residence, supposedly to transport the Netanyahu's family's belongings

Mansour Abbas crossed the Rubicon, more need to follow - opinion

This conflict will not end until the rejectionists accept defeat and recognize the legitimacy and permanency of the Jewish State.

 PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett and Ra’am Chairman Mansour Abbas confer in the Knesset last month.

Mansour Abbas’s ‘Jewish state’ bombshell - opinion

Though he deserves kudos for breaking with the longstanding tradition of his peers in the Knesset, let’s keep in mind that he’s a politician with an agenda beyond what he touted in his campaign.

MANSOUR ABBAS, head of the Ra’am Party, is seen after signing the coalition agreement, at Kfar Maccabiah in Ramat Gan, earlier this month.