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Hadash, Ta'al and Balad Agree to Revive the Joint List Without Ra'am

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Courtroom-sketch editorial illustration of the three party leaders behind the revived Joint List: three men in suits shown side by side as head-and-shoulders portraits against a dark cross-hatched wall, the man at the left in a navy jacket over a pale blue open-collar shirt with heavy black-framed glasses, the man at the centre with swept silver hair and a short grey beard in a dark suit, white shirt and deep maroon tie, and the older man at the right in thin gold-rimmed glasses and an olive-gre

Hadash, Ta'al and Balad agreed on Wednesday to run together on a revived Joint List in the coming Knesset election, leaving out Mansour Abbas's Ra'am. The agreed slate places Hadash chairman Yousef Jabareen first, Ta'al chairman Ahmad Tibi second and Balad chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh third, with rotation arrangements between Hadash and Ta'al in the sixth and ninth slots. The deal followed a public crisis over Ta'al's share of the list. The union is intended to raise the voting rate in Arab society, and an official announcement has not yet been scheduled. Ra'am, which is expected to run separately, holds its primaries on Saturday.

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