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Yoseph Haddad
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Yoseph Haddad

יוסף חדאד

Advocacy campaigner

party polls under the threshold
Below the line
years in public service
23
issues off the party line
1 of 8
#2 on the Amcha Israel list

Running for Public Diplomacy Minister

He said at the party launch on 25 August 2026 that he wanted to lead a restored Public Diplomacy Ministry.

Who they are

Yoseph Haddad is an Arab Christian Israeli campaigner who founded Together, Vouching for Each Other, which works to connect Arab citizens to Israeli society. He was born in Haifa in 1985 to a schoolteacher mother and a father who was a priest, businessman and civil pilot. The family moved to Nazareth when he was three, and he was schooled at the Don Bosco technological school there. He volunteered for the army after the bombing of the Maxim restaurant, and served as a platoon sergeant in Battalion 51 of Golani. His battalion fought at Bint Jbeil in the Second Lebanon War, and in a separate incident in July 2006 he was severely wounded by a missile; after about a year of rehabilitation he was recognised as a disabled veteran.

Haddad began advocacy work that same year through the disabled veterans’ organisation, and has since campaigned abroad against the BDS boycott movement and against antisemitism at universities. He started a politics degree at Bar-Ilan University but left it for advocacy work. He broadcast in Arabic and English on i24NEWS for three years and writes columns for Israel Hayom and TheMarker.

He fired his pistol during an argument with a scooter rider in Jaffa on 30 July 2025 and was charged with recklessness and negligence with a weapon. He says the shot was discharged unintentionally.

Positions and record

Arab representation: "I have come to replace the Arab parties," saying Arab citizens need representatives who work for them "and not for Gaza, Jenin and Ramallah".

Conscription: Backs an effective new draft law covering "all parts of the population", addressing those currently exempt directly. Frames Arab citizens' part as volunteering for the army or national service, not conscription.

Gaza: His published plan is military rule with an Arab-state partner, freedom of action for the army, and reform of Gaza's schools. He has not spoken on the emigration policy his party leader campaigns on.

Legal record: Indicted in 2025 for reckless handling of a weapon after firing his pistol during an altercation in Jaffa. His lawyer says he was attacked and recognised; the other man says Haddad started it. No outcome has been reported.

Where they stand

Breaks with the party line on 1 issue, marked below.

Judea & Samariaparty lineJudea and Samaria an inseparable part of the Jewish homeland: no Palestinian state, the Palestinian Authority disarmed but for police weapons, and Jewish communities strengthened
Two states / withdrawalSovereignty / annexation
Gaza & Securityparty lineVoluntary emigration for Gazans who want to leave, to countries willing to take them, with the terror groups kept from rebuilding and any war costing the enemy territory.
Deal & disengagementFull military control
Haredi Enlistmentparty lineA Basic Law: Service puts every citizen in the army or in national or civilian service, with a track kept for outstanding Torah scholars as the army's needs allow.
Universal draftPreserve exemptions
Judiciaryparty lineA supreme appellate court to hear appeals against the Supreme Court, the Attorney General's job split in two, and legal advisers kept from tying soldiers' hands
Court can strike lawsKnesset can override
Economyparty lineMove power from concentrated interests to consumers, workers and entrepreneurs: break up monopolies, cut regulation and bureaucracy, and back small and medium businesses.
Social spendingFree market
Educationparty lineOne national standard and a full core curriculum in every school system, no state money for anti-Zionist schools, and principals given charge of hiring and programmes.
State runs the schoolsParents and communities
Religion & Stateparty lineTradition by love, not coercion, from a slate of religious, traditional and secular candidates; no stated policy on civil marriage, conversion, Shabbat or the rabbinate
Civil / pluralistReligious authority
Nation & Citizenshippersonal positionWants Arab citizens represented inside the national camp, and pitched his own party at "all Israelis equally, whether they are named Mustafa or David"
Equal citizenshipJewish national state
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