Parliamentary election at the end of October: Israel's Supreme Court allows Arab parties to take part in the election

The Arab parties in Israel are allowed to run in the parliamentary elections at the end of October. The country's highest court has now decided this. The court thereby overturned a decision by the Central Election Committee, which wanted to exclude the Arab parties. The judges ruled that the panel's decision did not meet the requirements for excluding the parties.

The committee had previously voted 18 to 5 against the conservative Islamic Raam Party led by Mansour Abbas and against the Joint List of Chadash, Taal and Balad. The accusation in applications against the parties' participation was, among other things, that they supported the armed struggle against Israel. The United Arab List condemned the decision as "political, racist and anti-democratic." It was already considered likely that the court would overturn the decision.

Unlike in the case of the Arab parties, the Central Election Committee did not decide to exclude Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's right-wing extremist Jewish party Ozma Jehudit from taking part in the election.

According to opinion polls, neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's camp nor his opponents' camp can expect an absolute majority in the landmark election on October 27th. The Raam party could play the role of kingmaker.

It is not yet fully clear why the co-pilot of the Flydubai plane tried to bring the plane down. Nevertheless, Israeli politicians are trying to use the dramatic incident in the election campaign.