Jewish former MK Yoav Segalovitz announces unprecedented run with Arab Ra’am party

Yoav Segalovitz, a former Yesh Atid MK and police official, has announced that he will run with the Arab Ra'am party. According to Haaretz, Segalovitz said the partnership aims to break down political divides between Jewish and Arab Israelis and build cooperation based on trust and a shared effort to improve the country.

Segalovitz, a former head of Lahav 433, had recently resigned from the Knesset and departed from the Yesh Atid Party. He will join Ra'am's slate ahead of the upcoming elections, but will not actually join the party to maintain flexibility, as reported by The Times of Israel.

The move has been seen as a way for Ra'am to be viewed as a more viable coalition partner. Ra'am joined the coalition in 2021 during the Naftali Bennett-Yair Lapid government, marking the first time an Arab party was a formal member of a governing coalition. The Jerusalem Post reported that Ra'am leader MK Mansour Abbas and Segalovitz made the announcement in a joint press conference.

Brief written by urgent.news from The Times of Israel, Haaretz, Jerusalem Post — 3 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.