{"id":36796,"date":"2026-09-01T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=36796"},"modified":"2026-09-01T04:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:30:19","slug":"in-an-unprecedented-move-abbas-and-segalovitz-announce-joint-run-bringing-jewish-lawmaker-to-arab-partys-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=36796","title":{"rendered":"In an unprecedented move, Abbas and Segalovitz announce joint run, bringing Jewish lawmaker to Arab party\u2019s slate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ra\u2019am chief: We need to create partnerships and \u2018see the other as a human being, not as an enemy\u2019; Segalovitz: \u2018The assertion that after October 7 it is impossible to maintain a political partnership with Arab parties is false\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yoav Segalovitz, left, and Ra’am party chairman Mansour Abbas at a press conference announcing a joint Knesset run, in Nazareth. August 31, 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mansour Abbas and Yoav Segalovitz, a Jewish former police official, lawmaker and deputy minister, announced Monday evening that Segalovitz will run with Abbas\u2019s Arab Ra\u2019am party in the October 27 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement capped weeks of speculation that Segalovitz would take the unprecedented step of joining with Ra\u2019am. While the predominantly Arab party Hadash has long included a Jewish lawmaker, Ra\u2019am has never done so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ra\u2019am\u2019s top priority is eliminating crime and violence against innocent civilians, Abbas stated at a press conference in Nazareth, asserting that every Arab parent goes to sleep asking themselves, \u201cWill my children return home safely?\u201d

The only way to accomplish this goal is to create partnerships and \u201cto see the other as a human being, not as an enemy,\u201d he continued, praising Segalovitz as \u201can officer who has stood up to criminals his whole life without asking what their religion is\u201d and \u201can honest, quiet man who doesn\u2019t seek headlines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Segalovitz established the police\u2019s Lahav 433 unit to fight serious crime and is a former commander of the police\u2019s Investigations and Intelligence Division. He was credited with helping reduce crime in Arab Israeli communities during his tenure as deputy minister for public security in the 2021-2022 government headed by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surveys have shown that the inclusion of Segalovitz, a former member of the centrist Yesh Atid party who recently resigned from the Knesset, could boost Ra\u2019am\u2019s showing at the polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for why an Arab party needs a Jewish police officer, \u201cMy answer is simple,\u201d Abbas said. \u201cI\u2019m not looking for someone who is like me. I\u2019m looking for someone who knows how to do the job. And the Arab citizen who buried his son doesn\u2019t ask what the policeman\u2019s religion is. He asks why no one comes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Addressing his decision to run with Abbas, Segalovitz said he was guided by Zionist and Jewish values and that while he and Abbas do not intend to change each other, \u201cit is possible to cooperate politically based on trust, recognition of difference, and commitment to joint action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe common assertion that after October 7 it is impossible to maintain a political partnership with Arab parties is baseless and false,\u201d Segalovitz continued, adding that he wants to \u201cbreak the paradigm of how political partnership is created.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Head of Ra\u2019am Mansour Abbas (right) holds a joint press conference with Yoav Segalovitz (left), who will run on the Ra\u2019am slate in October\u2019s elections, in Nazareth, August 31, 2026. (Michael Giladi\/FLASH90)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Segalovitz will not become a member of the Ra\u2019am party but will run on the Ra\u2019am slate in a technical alliance. He will retain freedom of action in the Knesset while Ra\u2019am will not change its constitution or decision-making processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While reports have previously said Segalovitz was conditioning the move on Ra\u2019am recognizing Israel as a Jewish state, there was no such announcement on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Channel 12 reported that one of Segalovitz\u2019s top priorities will be to advance national service for Arab citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Times of Israel poll<\/a> showed earlier this month that 56 percent of opposition voters would support including Ra\u2019am with Segalovitz in a possible coalition, while 30% opposed doing so. The poll found that if Ra\u2019am joined a governing coalition, it would give the opposition bloc a 63-seat majority in the 120-seat Knesset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responding to the announcement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s Likud party accused Segalovitz of seeking to establish a Palestinian state. \u201cEven Segalovitz won\u2019t hide the fact that Mansour Abbas refuses to recognize Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations and is pushing to establish a Palestinian state,\u201d it said. \u201cTogether with [Gadi] Eisenkot, [Avigdor] Liberman and Yair Golan, they are going to establish a Palestinian state government.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abbas recently sparked controversy when he called on Israel to recognize an \u201cindependent Palestinian state\u201d during a speech to party delegates at their convention in Taibe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He subsequently was reported to have reassured opposition party leaders that his belief in the Palestinian right to self-determination would not be translated into a demand for policy change during potential coalition talks after the election. There is currently widespread opposition in Israel to establishing a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout Israel\u2019s history, Jews have not served as Arab parties\u2019 representatives in the Knesset, with the notable exception of the communist Hadash party and its predecessors, which have traditionally been associated with the Arab bloc of parties while featuring joint Arab-Jewish representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference Link:- https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/jewish-former-mk-yoav-segalovitz-announces-unprecedented-run-with-arab-raam-party\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ra\u2019am chief: We need to create partnerships and \u2018see the other as a human being, not as an enemy\u2019; Segalovitz: \u2018The assertion that after October 7 it is impossible to maintain a political partnership with Arab parties is false\u2019 Yoav Segalovitz, left, and Ra’am party chairman Mansour Abbas at a press conference announcing a joint […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[52,51,999,34348,34345,34188,34347,34342,34343,34346,34344],"class_list":["post-36796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-zionism","tag-arab-party","tag-elections-alliance","tag-ilegal-occupation-of-palestine","tag-jewish-lawmaker","tag-political-alliance","tag-raam","tag-unprecedented","tag-yoav-segalovitz","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36798,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36796\/revisions\/36798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}