Senior coalition officials say they are more concerned about the Ra'am (United Arab List) party than another MK leaving the coalition, according to an Israel Hayom report.
"No one realizes how much pressure Arab MKs are facing. It will get even harder for them if the security situation escalates. [Party head] MK Mansour Abbas is a big supporter of the current coalition, and by no means wants to see it fall, but [other MKs] within his party don't share that opinion and are facing great pressure [to defect]. They don't view themselves as subordinate to Abbas. There's no way of knowing what they'll do," the sources were quoted as saying.