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Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi (L) speaks at a press conference, in Haifa on October 20, 2026, and Joint List party chairman Yousef Jabareen at the party’s election headquarters in the northern city of Nazareth, following the closing of polling stations on general election night, October 27, 2026. (Sharon Leibel/Flash90)

Veteran Arab MK Ahmad Tibi, No. 2 on the Joint List, said Saturday that his party was ready to support the anti-Netanyahu Zionist parties in establishing a government to replace the outgoing coalition, but stressed that it did not want to be part of the government itself.

Speaking to Channel 12 news, Tibi urged leading opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot to “be like [the late prime minister Yitzhak] Rabin,” who relied on the votes of Arab MKs to pass the Oslo Accords with the PLO.

Meanwhile, the party’s chairman Yousef Jabareen said in a separate interview that initial contacts had been made with most of the leaders of the anti-Netanyahu bloc.…