Who they are
Yousef Jabareen is a law professor who chairs Hadash and the Joint List. He served as a Hadash MK from 2015 to 2021, working on constitutional law and minority rights.
Born in 1972, he lives in Umm al-Fahm. He read law at the Hebrew University, took a master’s at American University in Washington and a doctorate at Georgetown. He joined the University of Haifa’s law faculty and taught at Tel-Hai Academic College, where he headed the social education programme and became a professor in 2026. He ran Dirasat, an Arab law and policy centre in Nazareth, sat on Sikkuy’s board and researched the legal status chapter of The Future Vision of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel.
In the Knesset he led lobbies on Arabic’s status and shared Jewish and Arab life. His first law amended the Women’s Equal Rights Law to exempt women in advanced pregnancy from queueing at public institutions. He was the first Arab MK to chair the Committee on the Rights of the Child. It held more than sixty sessions under him and approved the first uniform supervision rules for early-childhood day care, including private nurseries and those contracted to the labour and welfare ministry.
Positions and record
Equality: Proposed constitutional guarantees of full civil, cultural and national equality in 2018. Later that year, sponsored a bill to repeal the Nation-State Law.
Arab-Jewish partnership: In May 2026, called for rebuilding the Joint List and Arab-Jewish political cooperation. Rejected joining a coalition based on Jewish supremacy or exclusion of Arab citizens.
Occupation: In June 2026, called for ending the occupation, dismantling settlements and establishing a sovereign Palestinian state alongside Israel, with both states democratic.
Women’s representation: In May 2026, proposed changing Hadash’s rules to guarantee reserved places for women on its Knesset list.
Crime prevention: In May 2026, proposed a parliamentary inquiry into the government’s response to crime and a community volunteering programme for Arab young people, alongside training and employment.
Where they stand
Holds the party line on every issue.