Joint List
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The Joint List
הרשימה המשותפת القائمة المشتركة |
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| Leader | Ayman Odeh |
| Founded | 23 January 2015 |
| Headquarters | Nazareth, Israel |
| Ideology |
Israeli Arab interests Big tent Two State Solution |
| Political position | Big tent |
| Member parties |
Balad Hadash Ta'al United Arab List |
| Colors | Turquoise |
| Knesset |
13 / 120
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The Joint List (Hebrew: הרשימה המשותפת, HaReshima HaMeshutefet; Arabic: القائمة المشتركة, al-Qa'imah al-Mushtarakah) is a political alliance of four Arab-dominated parties in Israel—Hadash, the United Arab List, Balad, and Ta'al. They are the third largest faction in the 20th Knesset.
The Joint List was formed in the build-up to the 2015 elections as an alliance of Balad, Hadash, Ta'al and the United Arab List (the southern branch of the Islamic Movement). The northern branch of the Islamic Movement denounced the entire electoral project.
The agreement between the parties was signed on 22 January, marking the first time the major Arab parties had run as a single list. Balad, Hadash and the United Arab List had run separately for elections since the 1990s (Balad and Hadash ran together in 1996), whilst Ta'al had run in alliance with all three during the 1990s and 2000s. However, the raising of the electoral threshold from 2% to 3.25% led to the parties creating an alliance to increase their chances of crossing the threshold, as both Hadash and Balad received less than 3% of the vote in the 2013 elections. Initially, the parties mulled running as two blocs (Hadash with Ta'al, and Balad with the Islamic Movement), but party representatives said pressure from the Arab public pushed them to join forces.
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