Overview
- Leaders of Hadash, Ta’al, Balad, and Ra’am signed a commitment in Sakhnin to work toward reestablishing the Joint List ahead of the next elections.
- The pledge does not include a finalized unified slate or formal legal registration, and negotiations continue.
- Ayman Odeh said polls indicate about 85 percent of Arab citizens support one joint list.
- He argued unity is essential to raise turnout to “bring down the Israeli government,” which he called “fascist” and blamed for crime in Arab society.
- Odeh urged Ra’am and the other parties to bridge disagreements and cited the Joint List’s 2020 result of 15 Knesset seats as proof of the approach’s potential.