Mansour Abbas' political gambit
Last year, Abbas made history as the first Arab-Israeli political leader to join an Israeli governing coalition. This fall, voters will decide if he's gone too far for his own supporters, or not far enough
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Last year, Abbas made history as the first Arab-Israeli political leader to join an Israeli governing coalition. This fall, voters will decide if he's gone too far for his own supporters, or not far enough
Israel's unlikely coalition government, the first ever backed by an Arab party, was forged a year ago to oust right-wing premier Benjamin Netanyahu, but ultimately collapsed over the Palestinian conflict.
The Islamist Ra'am party announced it would return to the fold and give coalition another chance
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is working to hold his fractious coalition together after a split on the right and an Arab-Israeli party's threat to quit over violence in Jerusalem.
Israel's parliament will vote Sunday on ending Benjamin Netanyahu's tenure as prime minister and approving a new coalition that includes an Arab party