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Nov 2, 2026
Joshua HoffmanNARRATOR
Some elected Arab representatives through lists associated with the governing Mapai party, the predecessor of today's labor tradition.
Joshua HoffmanNARRATOR
Others voted for the Israeli Communist Party, which included both Jewish and Arab politicians.
Joshua HoffmanNARRATOR
In fact, Arab voter turnout during Israel's early decades was remarkably high, averaging approximately 84% between 1949 and 1973.
Joshua HoffmanNARRATOR
It meant Arab citizens were represented in the Knesset from the very beginning, The abolition of the military administration in 1966 marked a major turning point.
Oliver MizziGUEST
And They are represented by a joint list that is between three different parties.
Oliver MizziGUEST
That's Hadash, which are a merger of the Israeli Communist Party and other Arab parties.
Oliver MizziGUEST
Then you have Ta'al, which is Ahmed Tibi's party.
Oliver MizziGUEST
Then you have Balad, which is led by Sami Abu Shahada.
Aurel BraunGUEST
These are Jewish citizens.
Aurel BraunGUEST
And we know some of the statements made by some of the Jewish Israelis who are members of the Israeli Communist Party and are members of the Joint List would be viewed extraordinarily extreme in a place like Canada or anywhere else.
Caryn CeolinHOST
I want to ask you about the stakes for Israel's neighbors in the Middle East.
Caryn CeolinHOST
Do you view this election as a possible turning point for the region? If
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's the Joint List, which is a union of three parties who made an electoral pact to run together.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
One is the Israeli Communist Party.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Believe it or not, Israel has a communist party, and they are there.
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Then there is the Arab nationalist element, which is...
Jonathan TobinHOST
In return for propping up the government led by Bennett, who was elected on a pledge never to sit with anti-Zionist parties or those of the Israeli left, he received much-needed funding for Arab communities.
Jonathan TobinHOST
The other Arab party is the Joint List, a coalition of secular nationalist Arab parties that includes Hadash, the former Communist Party of Israel, and is led by academic Yosef Jabarin.
Jonathan TobinHOST
It improved its showing in the last election in 2022 by reuniting with one of its former constituent members, the radical leftist Balad Party, which ran on its own four years ago and fell below the threshold of votes needed for entry to the Knesset.
Jonathan TobinHOST
This restored joint list did far better than Ram this time.
Mark RegevHOST
There's the joint list, which is a union of three parties who made an electoral pact to run together.
Mark RegevHOST
One is the Israeli Communist Party.
Mark RegevHOST
Believe it or not, Israel has a communist party, and they are there.
Mark RegevHOST
Then there is the Arab nationalist element, which is – Ahmad Tibi, in many ways, we should say Palestinian nationalists.
Ruth EglashHOST
What's your take on this?
Eylon LevyGUEST
Well, first of all, most Israelis are going to be voting for parties on the right, with the exception of the Arab parties, one of which is the Israeli Communist Party.
Eylon LevyGUEST
There is only one self-proclaimed left-wing party.
Eylon LevyGUEST
That's the Democrats, the merger of labor and merit, such a small camp that those two mighty parties had to merge in order to both survive.
Aaron Rakeffet-RothkoffHOST
And Russia had vested interest This you won't believe.
Aaron Rakeffet-RothkoffHOST
They thought that Israel could become a communist state and be a stepping stone for Russia in the Middle East? No? Tell me, who headed the communist party in the state of Israel? Maki Mifleka, communist leader.
Aaron Rakeffet-RothkoffHOST
Miflagat, communistic, Israelite.
Aaron Rakeffet-RothkoffHOST
Rabbi Shimon Schupp's granddaughter, Rabbi Feivel Hindis, Rabbi Shimon's son-in-law, Rabbi Shimon's yeshiva in Grodno, his granddaughter, his daughter, she was the head of the communist party here.
Aaron Rakeffet-RothkoffHOST
Communism, half the leaders or not, or more, Look, Jews, Marx, Engels, Lenin had Jewish blood in him.
Nadav EyalGUEST
It's actually parties that usually get most of their votes, more than 90 percent from the Arab society public in Israel.
Nadav EyalGUEST
But the Israeli Communist Party that is both Jewish and Arab is part of the so-called Arab parties.
Nadav EyalGUEST
There you have basically two or three parties.
Nadav EyalGUEST
Two of them are now united in the United Arab Party.