Balad decides to accept the Supreme Court justices’ proposal: Party chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh will withdraw from the Knesset race, avoiding a reasoned ruling on his disqualification.
The Attorney General and State Attorney have declared support for the petition to disqualify Sami Abu Shahhdah from the Knesset for supporting armed strruggle against Israel.
Video shows Balad chief repeating his controversial remarks days after October 7, contradicting his claim of ignorance about the massacre.
Central Elections Committee disqualifies the Joint List after barring Ra’am, Ofer Cassif and Sami Abu Shehadeh.
MK Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party says Ra’am, the Joint List, Ofer Cassif and Sami Abu Shehadeh have no place in Knesset.
Senior Balad official says Sami Abu Shehadeh article, which was interpreted as expressing support for the October 7 attack, was analytical in nature and did not constitute an expression of his position.
Judge Noam Sohlberg rejects Sami Abu Shehadeh’s request to postpone the hearing over his hospitalization, allowing him to participate remotely as Otzma Yehudit pushes to block his Knesset candidacy.
Senior officials support disqualifying Balad chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh, while the Deputy State Attorney has reservations and the AG awaits his response.
Balad attacks Otzma Yehudit’s attempt to bar Sami Abu Shehadeh from running, calling it a "campaign of incitement and political persecution."
The Otzma Yehudit party petitions the Central Elections Committee to disqualify former MK Sami Abu Shehadeh from running in the upcoming Knesset elections.
Balad Chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh warns of attempts by Zionist parties to recruit Arab voters, calling this a 'very serious danger' and states that his party will launch an 'organized campaign' to prevent votes from leaking to other parties.
New report says Palestinian Authority officials pushed Arab parties to unite against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud hits back.
Joint Arab List leaders meet European Union ambassadors in Tel Aviv, urging greater European involvement in Israel and presenting allegations over government policy and Arab representation.
Representatives of Hadash, Ta’al and Balad agree to run together in the upcoming elections. Ra’am will not be part of the alliance.
Fourth-ranked Balad candidate Hassan al-Nasasra prioritizes battle over land at the heart of his election message, accusing Israel of seeking to harm its Arab population.
Hadash, Balad, and Ta'al join forces to run in the elections with the stated goal of 'toppling the fascist right-wing government.'
The Ta’al party, headed by MK Ahmad Tibi, announces it is joining efforts to establish a joint list with Hadash and Balad ahead of the Knesset elections, while leaving open the possibility of Ra’am joining at a later stage.
Arab parties Hadash and Balad condemn proposals for civilian national service for Arab youth, branding them a "dangerous plot."
Amjad Shbita claims that Ra'am refused to endorse a joint political platform, despite the other parties agreeing to form a technical Arab electoral list.
The Balad party is shifting its primary focus to advancing a three-party Joint List, with subsequent plans to attempt to bring Ra'am into the fold.
MK Mansour Abbas accuses Hadash and Balad party leaders of smear campaign against him, says they broke commitments in talks for joint list.
The Balad party views the proposal to require Arab youth to perform civil or national service as an attempt to sever them from their Palestinian national identity.
Awad Abd al-Fattah, who previously served as secretary-general of the Balad party, was arrested by police on suspicion of incitement to terrorism.
Balad Party calls for immediate end to Operation Northern Arrows, which is intended to remove the threat of Hezbollah's rocket attacks and terrorism from the northern border.
Former MK Abou Shahadeh reveals plans to establish an organization to raise the issue of Israeli Arabs in the international arena.
Balad representatives refuse to attend meeting in Umm al-Fahm with the chairman of the opposition.
Balad Party activists demonstrate against visit by President Herzog to the city of Umm al-Fahm.
Outgoing MK Samy Abu Shahadeh claims funds from US Jews went to other Arab parties during the Knesset election campaign.
Amoeba's multiply by dividing. The Israeli left and Arab parties seem not to be amoebas. Let that be a lesson.Op-ed.
Chikli's candidacy approved by a majority of eight out of nine judges. Balad run approved unanimously.
Leftist organization "Adalah" claims that Balad's disqualification has no basis and was already discussed in the past in the Supreme Court
Balad Party: We will not submit to Gantz's dictates in trying to engineer an Arab leadership according to his standard.
Balad expected to appeal to Supreme Court after Central Elections Committee votes to disqualify it from running.
Parties from the right-wing bloc won't attend discussion in Central Elections Committee on disqualifying the Ra'am Party.
MK Samy Abu Shahadeh claims Israel's counterterrorism activity in Judea and Samaria is part of Lapid's election campaign.
Arab turnout in November elections expected to be 43% after Joint Arab List splits up.
MK Samy Abu Shahadeh expresses confidence that Balad will pass the threshold, stresses it will not withdraw because of unflattering polls.
PM's Yesh Atid Party will not support the disqualification of Balad chairman despite backing such initiatives in the past.
Yesh Atid officials say they hope split of Balad party from Joint Arab List will allow remaining parties in list to move towards the center.
Senior officials in Balad say Lapid was involved in "dirty trick" that led to Balad running separately from Hadash and Ta’al.
Hadash chairman believes Arab voter turnout will not be harmed despite Balad deciding to run separately from the Joint List.
The distribution of the Arab votes among three parties increases the chance that one of them will not pass the electoral threshold.
'We want a coalition which will agree on basic political principles,' MK Abou Shahadeh, chairman of Arab Balad party, says.
Attempts being made to convince Balad and Ta'al to accept a rotation as part of arrangement that would re-establish the Joint List.
MK Simcha Rotman reacts to Balad leader MK Sami Abou Shahadeh's call to change Israeli flag, national anthem and cancel Law of Return.
MK Sami Abu Shehadeh: 'Jews in Israel made 1 of the most well-oiled, most efficient, most destructive machines of destruction in the world.'
Ta'al and Balad parties reportedly considering splitting from Hadash and running separately in November election.
Balad chairman claims Mansour Abbas and Ra'am support the "occupation government" in "killing Palestinians."
Party announced it intends to call on the entire Joint List not to recommend any of the candidates to the President.
The newly elected head of Balad opened his tenure with a number of controversial opinions on Twitter.
Balad has declared its opposition to Israel as a Jewish state and pushed to turn the country into a “state of all its citizens”.
Blue and White will try to convince Joint List party to agree to minority government which they will support from the outside.
MK Orly Levy-Abekasis announces she will oppose formation of Blue and White government which is dependent on Balad party.
PM Netanyahu asks Blue and White MKs opposed to minority govt. with support of Joint List to act to prevent 'govt. dangerous to Israel.'
Blue and White officials to meet Joint Arab List representatives, including Balad party tomorrow.
MK Heba Yazbak clarifies that Balad will not recommend Benny Gantz to form a government. "We're not the only ones."
'For the sake of ending the occupation.' Balad faction rejoins Joint List, ending split between Arab factions and creating single list.
Three Arab parties unite under single list, MK Odeh promises fourth will join this week.
Professor Aviad Hacohen warns Election Committee made a mistake disqualifying Balad party, turned extremists into martyrs.
Central Elections Committee accepts petition of Likud and Otzma Yehudit, disqualifies Balad from running for the 21st Knesset.
